World: r3wp

REBOL is a very human-oriented language... as little syntax as possible 
(notice how there aren't any parens for functions. for example)

yeah exactly

if you are very used to C++ this will feel awkard for a while  though 
 :-)   its almost like the total opposite.

well it did look like moon-speak :D

in a year, C++ will feel awkward :-)

well guys i have to say the community works and i am pleasntly impressed.I 
am checking the libraries now and trying to get the script to work 
since i am getting  ** Access Error: Cannot open /C/users/alemar/download/test.r
** Where: halt-view

** Near: do %/C/users/alemar/download/test.r                     
                                                                 
                   i will figure it out eventually and i can get 
to real programing in this langueage** Access Error: Cannot open 
/C/users/alemar/download/test.r
** Where: halt-view

** Near: do %/C/users/alemar/download/test.r** Access Error: Cannot 
open /C/users/alemar/download/test.r
** Where: halt-view
** Near: do %/C/users/alemar/download/test.r

don't forget to put a header to your file :
Rebol [ ]

We don't know whether the file exists, e.g., what does the expression

exists? %/C/users/alemar/download/test.r

we went over all that in the i'm new group.  :-)

Is there an easy way to suppress a carriage return and line feed 
when hitting the enter button?

For example:  I'd like to be able to do this:
Guess # 1:  XXX <enter> "  Nope, too high, guess lower"
Guess # 2: YYY <enter> "  Nope, too low, guess higher" ...

Can this be done with the ASK somehow?

http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/recipes/0060.html

Henrik,  That is close, but I'm looking to be able to enter several 
characters, then hit the enter button, but NOT have a LF character 
printed at the time of the enter.

perhaps check the source for the INPUT function

(which is used by ASK)

Will do!!!

A while ago someone made a text UI dialect for R2 that used ansi 
codes to move around. You might consider looking into that. It is 
likely in the rebol.org script library.

I'm stinking close!!!! But not there yet:  Try this in R2:

		set-modes system/ports/input [binary: true]
		string: []
		until [
			prin char: to-char input
			append string char
			char = 13 ; <enter>
			]
		set-modes system/ports/input [binary: false]
		head string
		print "string: " string

After each typed character, I do get the console to print each one 
out, but then I seem to loose the end value when I hit enter

Is there an equivilent for SET-MODES system/ports/input [binary: 
true] in R3?

No, not yet.

Any ideas on how to get my end value in R2?

No SET-MODES at all yet.

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong with R2 for this code:

		set-modes system/ports/input [binary: true]
		string: ""
		until [
			char: input
;			print char-x: to-char char
			if not char = 13 [
				prin "-" prin char-x: to-char char
				append string char-x
				]
			char = 13 ; <enter>
			]
		set-modes system/ports/input [binary: false]
		head string
		print "string: " string

Typing in the following gives me this:
-1-2-3string:      

I was hoping for
-1-2-3string: "123"

Typing in      123<enter>

dinner calls -- will check back later

Might be that last print statement.......I think you mean:
    	print ["string: " string]

or perhaps:
    	print ["string: " mold string]

Dohhhhh! That is right!!  Thank you Sunanda

I am plaqued by a simple problem.  In R2-core, I keep on getting 
a Security Check prompt when attempting to read a file.

I am able to avoid security check prompts with R3-core by setting 
SECURE [DEBUG ALLOW] in %rebol.r
But I am not able to do this with R2-core. 


What is the proper way to use the SECURE [FILE ALLOW] option so that 
I am not continually prompted all the time?
I've tried it in my rebol.r file but it still asks me for this.

Another annoyance -- I am not sure why, but R2-core seems to require 
two REBOL [] headers for %rebol.r and %user.r -- Is anyone else seeing 
this as well?

Windows XP  R2.7.8

secure none

Is it possible to get the value of variable number of occurences 
while parsing block?

Foe example, I have the following 

block1: [cancel "res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]	; the number of strings 
following 'cancel might be 1, 2, 3...

>> parse block1 ['cancel set res-numbers some string!]
== true
>> res-numbers
== "res-1"

Is there a way I can get all three strings? Thank you very much!

>> parse block1 ['cancel copy res-numbers [some string!]]
== true
>> res-numbers
== ["res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]

>> parse block1 ['cancel copy res-numbers some string!] res-numbers
== ["res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]
>> parse block1 ['cancel return res-numbers some string!]
== ["res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]
These are all R3 though.

>> parse block1 ['cancel return some string!]
== ["res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]

The ones with COPY work in R2 as well.

Don't use this one (from above):
>> parse block1 ['cancel return res-numbers some string!]
== ["res-1" "res-2" "res-3"]
It is matching the previously copied res-numbers as a rule :(

Thanks Brian! I'm still working with R2. I thought COPY was only 
for parsing string, my bad I didn't even try it. Thanks again.

Is it possible to get the current context name in Rebol?

I'm trying to write a log function (write log data to file, like 
nlog or log4net in .net world), surely it will be nice if I could 
also write the current function being logged.
Example:

log: func [to-log] [write/append/lines %log.txt reform [now current-context/parent-context/name 
to-log]
plus: func [a b] [log reform ["adding" a "to" b] a + b]
>> plus 1 1
== 2
>> read %log.txt
== "14-Feb-2011/23:35:04+7:00 plus adding 1 to 1^/"


What I'm asking if whether such a thing like current-context and 
it's parent context exist, and how to get them. Thanks!

I'm not sure if you can. The closest analogy is BIND?, I believe.

You can, sort of, by cheating and generating an error.....The error 
object usually contains the current context name, but not the parent's
     plus: func [a b /local name][
        name:  get in disarm try [0 / 0 ] 'where   ;; cheat
        print name

        log reform ["adding" a "to" b "in" name]  ;; and add name explicitly 
        to log function call
        a + b
         ]

sunanda, that is a hell of a nice cheat!  never thought of that one.

pity it can't be made into a function  :-)

that is not the current context, rather, the current "function name". 
(and Max... I think I posted that a long time ago ;) I was using 
it in my profiler)


Awi, the thing is that functions don't have names. Also, by "context" 
in REBOL we mean something closer to what other languages call "frame", 
however REBOL has no concept of a "current frame" or of a "parent 
frame". R3 though has (had?) a STACK function that will probably 
give you want you want.

You can get the name of the word that the function was called through 
in the current call stack. This isn't *the* name of the function, 
but it's *a* name of the function. Note: "pity it can't be made into 
a function  :-)" This is because if you put that trick in a function, 
then *that* function is the function that will be referenced.

R3's STACK returns information about the entire call stack, though 
the 'debug security setting would put some limits on it. SECURE is 
disabled in recent builds so we don't know what the limits are; we 
could try older versions to find out what those limits used to be. 
Also, see http://issue.cc/r3/885for a bug in STACK.