Showing posts with label evaluate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evaluate. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2007

a Rebol tip

If you are new to the Rebol language on Windows you may have noticed that there are 2 files named rebol.exe
One is in \core and one is in \view
If you have followed the wiki-book you may be in the habit of running \core\rebol.exe in which case you may hit two oddities: first, that console does not know how to respond to
desktop
and, second, that it cannot respond to
editor ""
or the more interesting
editor system/view

The answer is to launch Rebol only using the home directory view.exe
From there you can go back and forth to console and then return to ViewTop using the command
desktop

While you are at it, try
source build-tag
or
source to-email
or
type? {this and that}
or
reduce [ 2 + 3 + 5 7 ]
or
compose ["this" (21 + 21) "that"]
or
parse {this that these those} " "
and enjoy!

PS. Here are 3 links to console info:
core
shell
quick-start