World: r3wp

Pekr, your disdain of install and user directories will fail on systems 
that are locked down for corporate or public use - too insecure.

Steeve, Maxim, you guys are hilarious :)

not deliberate

The compliment stands :)

A path is not a string in memory, btw. It's more like a block.

well, i only said that without knowing the true truth, only to gain 
a victory against Maxim

HAHAHA

The string parsing is done at LOAD time. Keep fighting :)

spoken like a true french would...

if you can't beat him... lie!    ;-p

Usually it works

(for the record... I'm french speaking too :-)

So you would know :)

(ithough,  was right on the specific evaluation scheme)

americans exaggerate, we just invent stuff... its more fun... hehehe 
 but we all lie  !  ;-D

Yeah, it's still parsed, but it's block-parsed instead of string-parsed.

so it's a mid-lie

half a truth is no truth AT ALL !!!!

I prefer to think that I deduce and induce, rather than lie :)

assuming is just lying with a good case!

;-)

As long as you track (and preferably state) your assumptions, it's 
not even lying at all.

right... that's just boring .... hahaha

it was just imprecision.
I too simplified to be sure that Maxim got it

All right, you foreigners, tell me what you think of http://curecode.org/rebol3/ticket.rsp?id=1212

i never use ALIAS

(just being silly about the foreigners stuff, but the ticket is serious)

Where's Jerry when you need him?

In a decade of REBOLing, Ive tried to use it exactly twice, and ended 
up having problems, so I created global words instead and forgot 
about it.

Guys, what are you coding with R3 currently ?

I've been mostly writing R3 itself. The projects I want to work on 
require capabilities that R2 don't have, and R3 didn't - until recently.

I've been trying to get R3 in shape to use for my projects, and it's 
been paying off recently (extensions, command!).

Actually, there is too much evolutions, i can't focus on a specific 
project

Haven't used R3 for anything serious yet.


but now that extensions are upon us, the OpenGL integration will 
allow me to use R3 for a *VERY* serious project.  still need Carl 
to fix the make/copy issue before I can convert most of my cool stuff 
over to R3 (like liquid and globs).

I hope extensions will be in the linux and mac ports shortly.

R2 still pays the bills and works very well for me.

OpenGL integration is a too big project for me, i lost my motivation 
after some days

Its working on my system  :-)


when A80 is out, depending on what he will have added to the API, 
I will try to port a simple OpenGL game to REBOL  :-)

well, i have some fun coding a proxy for R3 since some days, but 
I reach my limit attention

porting relavance to REBOL is also another big project of mine, probably 
will start in under a month  :-)

another one RDBMS

It's not Relational, is it?

ADBMS, sorry

Assoiative, relational... 

To my mind, there is no difference, it's just the query language 
which is different

*associative

At the end is always the same problem.
To have fast indexation algorithms

I don't code R3 things yet. Too many moving targets.

Re ALIAS -- it has several security and other issues.

Enabling it via SECURE is a good way of limiting the inadvertent 
damage it can do....And of drawing attention to its dangers for any 
casual dabbler.

The module rework has finally been submitted :)

Now it's time to backport it to R2/Forward, to the extent possible.

The set-block! datatype would make good sense with functions, that 
return more than one value. In Lua, a function returning 3 values 
can be defined as:

function f () return 1, 2, 3 end

and be called like:

a, b, c = f ()


Now a, b and c holds the values 1, 2 and 3. In REBOL we have to write:

set [a b c] f

It would maybe be nice to be able to write:

[a b c]: f

I find it easier to write set [a b c] than to notice the colon on 
the end of [a b c]: - but that may be just me.