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+1 for FACES-OF

+1 for FACES-OF

Oldes: there are a number of REBOL functions with a ? that return 
something other than boolean - length? and type? immediately spring 
to mind!

I can see that they would be more meaningful if they were called 
length-of and type-of  though.

They're also exceptions to the general rule, because the word without 
? is used too much as a variable or another function, as Anton says

+1 for FACES-OF

Merry Christmas

Re: "They're also exceptions to the general rule" - the general rule 
*is* to use the question mark for such functions, though. The FACES-OF 
"convention" is not a REBOL convention. In fact, it is more like 
a C convention.

Ladislav: and what about words-of, values-of? Those did not exist 
in R2, but were added to R3. Faces-of fits that naming scheme ....

having consistent naming conventions across the board is imo always 
a tough call. Naturally I can understand, why you have selected short 
"faces", and adding question mark ...

Even in R2 we had maximum-of and minimum-of.

In R3 A110 we have 8 "-of" words and 16 non-logic! "?" words (+4 
"?" console convenience words).

I prefer the *-of naming, even if they might get complaints about 
not being reflectors (most of the -of words are reflectors).

Quite a few of the 16 existing "?" non-logic! words fall in the backwards-compatibility 
category (e.g. exists? index? info? length? modified? offset? size? 
type?).

Some of the ? words won't be able to be changed because of backwards 
compatibility (this is a #667 situation, not a #666).

We could add new words in addition to the old, but not get rid of 
the old. At least that's the policy (so far).

EXISTS? is used in conditional expressions, so it is not completely 
non-logic. I am not sold on the ? equals logic rule though; to me, 
? always meant question.

EXISTS? originally returned only logic, didn't it? So its evolution 
into more than just logic should also be considered a backwards compatibility 
legacy situation, I think.

I don't mind '?' being use to indicate a question, but I think the 
"-of" words more accurately reflect what information is being extracted 
FACES?
 - it's like  "huh?" - it's vague, someone's secret language.

(Maximum-of and minimum-of were poorly named; I wanted them changed 
to 'at-maximum(-of)' etc since they return the series at the index.)

Just a warning.
Don't be seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. 

It's what I dislike the most in all actual popular languages. I mean 
, the bad habit to outrageously extend the names of variables and 
method.

The exact meaning of variables and methods is given by the context 
of the use case.
That's why they don't need to be over explicit.
And If you have any doubt, you can use HELP, at least in Rebol.

Agreed, Steeve, I'm OK with giving a +1 to the magic words method.

In human languages, words are almost all polysemous. The true meanings 
of words is given by the context.

Carl was able to expel all the horrors syntactic found in other languages. 
So we can almost read code like a human language.
Do not lose this goal, if you can.

+1 FACES?


What would a logic mean here? That there are faces? Well, it's a 
GUI thing... if than maybe FACE? could be ambigous.

Btw, I vote to keep FACES?.

When i see ? in a word's name, i know it may be a boolean or a calculated 
value (actually a function).
If the context is not clear enough, I invoke HELP.

Actually, I would have choose the name CHILDS. It's more polymorphic, 
and it can apply on faces or gobs.

Ah damn, you exposed my true nature as a Dark Side human resources 
manager.

sorry, recruitment officer.

:-

put that light-saber away, you're overreacting!

my mistake, I cut my own smiley with my lightsaber
:-)

pyromaniac vandal.

Returning (with some effort) to serious consideration of your argument; 
I'm in agreement (how could I not), but I would like to point out 
that it's a bit like a slippery slide argument: if I accept to add 
just a few more characters (? -> -of) then I'm on the road to creating 
the API with the most unwieldy extra long function names as found 
in other languages (without the utility of Rebol contexts at their 
disposal).

It was just a warning.
The Devil is in the details. 
-of

 could be the devil seed and give birth to abominations, like: get-faces-of-a-face
But I am conforted now ;-)

<Aha..! My evil plan worked..>

Just throwing something out here (as I'm not actively involved in 
R3 and mostly lurk):  I see "-of" as a "what" or "what are" type 
of question, while "?" more like "what is" (and all the rest) type 
of question.
(does it) exist?
(what is the) length?
(what is the) size?
(when was it) modified?
vs
(what are the) faces-of
(what are the) values-of

Then of course, minimum-of and maximum-of break this idea:
(what is the) minimum-of
But this works just as well IMO:
(what is the) minimum?


So looking at that, I'd consider the "?" or "-of" question to not 
so much be based on logic values, but whether it returns a single 
value, or a list of values.

So, +1 for FACES-OF here

What informs about a single value or a list is the use of plural 
in the name.

I've always seen that as incidental, not the meaning, but I guess 
I can see how it works.

FACES? : FACES-OF = 5:6 currently, if I count it correctly

Correcting my overlooking: FACES? : FACES-OF = 5:9

Not the topic, but this function does a strange control.

what do you mean?

In the code, why does it need to check if the contained gobs have 
a consistent data/face/gob ?

It should be consistent at first, no ?

Anyway, for me, REBOL standard is still SUFFIX?, not SUFFIX-OF, since 
it is documented as the proper style, as well as used in the majority 
of cases, like Andreas noted.

In the code, why does it need to check if the contained gobs have 
a consistent data/face/gob ?

 - because we had problems with text-faces, which contain a face-less 
 gob, i.e. a gob for which gob/data is a face, which does not have 
 face/data = gob. This caused a cycle for faceless gobs.

I do not know who introduced those faceless gobs, does somebody know?

I have two questions about R3 GUI : 
* do you have a demo script ? 

* do you have the same design has shown by Carl in march http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/gui/guide.html
?

demos are available, just see above (Henrik mentioned how you get 
them)

Ladislav, actually I don't see what you said in this function. I 
 only see that a gob and its gob/data/gob must be the same, which 
is rather curious

The design has been enhanced, the new doc is almost ready, will be 
made available on Tuesday, I think.