Relative Expression Based Object Language, or REBOL, is cross-platform and is based on symbolic processing and denotational semantics. It's powered by relative expressions called dialects.
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Expressing Rebol Dates in BNF
I'm looking to define the Rebol date format in BNF notation (as adapted for Rebol Parse). I'd like as best as possible to only define valid dates—at least those that are valid in Rebol at the moment:
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Expressing Rebol Dates in EBNF
I'm looking to define the Rebol date format in EBNF notation. I'd like as best as possible to only define valid dates—at least those that are valid in Rebol at the moment:
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Find arity of a rebol function
I needed a way to find the number of arguments a function or operation in Rebol accepts (the functions arity). I could not find any direct support for this in the language, so I made my own ...
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'Sort By' Function for Rebol
I'm looking for a more consise way to sort a block of objects. Where you can sort a block of blocks based on the numeric position of the values to compare, there's no such shorthand for comparing ...
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Dice Calculation Dialect
As a sample of dialects and teaching myself parse with block! values, I wrote the following dice dialect with the following ...
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Implementing Simple Diff in Rebol
I've taken a crack at implementing Simple Diff in Rebol (versions 2 and 3). Simple Diff works by finding the longest common sequence in two series, then recursively applies itself either side of ...
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Interface and implementation of this replacement for Rebol/Red REJOIN
This is a draft implementation of a function called COMBINE. It's not intended to be a complex formatting dialect, just a replacement for REJOIN that has a better name and more useful behavior. ...
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Rebol Function to Categorize Items in a Block
I have a function that iterates through a block, tests each value against a given function and is placed in a block associated with the product of that function.
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Rebol View layout compose, seek minima notation
I am attempting to break down a Rebol View into a Forth style 'divide and conquer' word set, to optimize readability and organization, and to segregate the business logic from the view layout inner ...
