World: r3wp

http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Ports:_Synchronous_and_Asynchronous_Operations

http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Event_System

:D Thanks!

I read some of those again ... really well done

Geomol: "How can that be?" Unfortunately many domain name is not 
accessible from Turkey. The telecommunication company restricts the 
access of many domains, IPs, and even domain names that includes 
some restricted words like porn, f**k or something..

The funny thing is the word of "forbidden" (in Turkish "yasak") is 
also restricted, no one can access a domain which includes "yasak" 
word without using a VPN.
Shame..

Yeah, interesting to see where people, who are interested in REBOL-like 
languages, come from.
 So count me in as well but I never show up in the stats :)

Hmm, reading some docs - there' s so many nice things about the R3, 
pity it is not open-sourced, or that Carl can't devote more time 
to its development ...

http://www.osnews.com/story/25373/EU_Copyright_Doesn_t_Cover_Functionality_Programming_Language

Not really on topic here, Kaj, but welcome news nonetheless :)

That's interesting reading. Can an instruction set for a CPU be copyrighted 
then?


Funny that the story is about SAS Institute and a company called 
"World Programming". A very dear frind of me works at SAS Institute 
France just south of Paris. I have to get his comments on that story. 
:)

Yes, I'd say it's quite on topic

Got response from my friend in France. He writes: Beware of WPS (World 
Programming System)! You NEVER know, what they're up to. Today SAS 
- tomorrow WPL!

Seems like he knows about them. :)

Like the countdown.

Frustrating

Hand me 100k, and you can get a pre-pre-release! ;p


Or you can wait a bit and see it as a little extra early x-mas present.

I'm an atheist, x-mas is just annoying.

:)

Yeah, I agree to some point.

Did you do some speed benchmark ? (R3 vs R2 vc World) ?

(I know, QA noted)

QA noted! :D

And good question!

I have noted 12 questions now. I'll do what I can to answer those 
questions as precise as I can before the countdown is finish.

Another one.

We already know that your physics background influenced the new complex 
numbers datatype.
Should we expect further progress of this kind ?

I feel, it's better to hold the Q&As together, now it's a brand new 
language.


What do you mean? More about numbers, extension of complex numbers 
like Quaternion or do you mean more about physics/science?

about physics/science

Ok, I'll answer that Q too in the QA.

I don't remember if you alread stated  your intention to share  your 
work (open-spourced) or not ?

That's the first question, I got.

Arghhh, frustrating !

(I'm sure you have fun)

1.5 more Qs: how long has this been in the making in general & how 
much time have you spent programming it?

My guess is about two years :-)

Noted :)

I know the secret - World is just new marketing layer to R2, hence 
nothing new :-)

Nothing new here ... move on ... move on ...

No, the innovation is swapping all values in the DLL interface

:D

:-)

is there a way loading and interfacing pure object files, how about 
callbacks ?

Question noted.

hmm, KWATZ, I think that Btiffin would be happy, because IIRC, he 
wanted to be able to load "any" data :-)

I like the kwatz! datatype :-)

Wouldn't be useful to treat the kwatz! type same way as binary! so 
you don't need to always convert it? I mean, all functions that are 
able to take binary! arg should be able to use the kwatz! as well...or 
do you think are there any problems regarding that?

Noted.

When thinking more about it...maybe the kwatz! shouldn't be separate 
datatype (as in fact it is identical with binary!). Instead of that 
you could intorduce KWATZ? native which will check the 'flag'. So 
possible usage:

parse data [
	set val binary! (
		either kwatz? val [
			;make the value valid
		][
			;treat normal properly loaded binary! stuff
		]
	)
]


this way the 'kwatz-flagged' binaries are treated same way as 'properly-loaded' 
binaries without the need to change all functions to support some 
hybrid kwatz! datatype.

Or maybe even better solution to enhance LOAD to support ON-KWATZ 
callback:

load/on-kwatz  "...anydata..." func [
	kwatz [binary!]
	/local valid-data
][
	valid-data: <do something with kwatz here>

 return valid-data ;or return FALSE to not change the data at the 
 loaded block position
]


This way you don't even need to use any new flag for the kwatz binary 
and the colision is detected and solved right during the LOADing 
as I think it is not neccesary to validate the data later than that.

Is there a call-in interface available, meaning I can embed w-l in 
other programs?

Regarding your thesis I guess you have something like an integrated 
db or a special datatype for permanent storage too..

I'm writing on the QA right now, and I'll try answer those questions 
too.

Q: Will the countdown run to 1, or to 0, or to a negative limit, 
or a complex! number, or some unknown kwatz!?