Curl and string-scanning

Over at the Curl Developer Center I added a comment to a post on string-scanning. I keep meaning to post on my efforts with RDF in REBOL and in Curl. But I have a few other TODO's on my GTD paths blocking my way ... now off to the first wedding of one of my own children's school friends ... tempus fugit.

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