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I thought the trick with Rebol is that it's "stringly-typed" like Tcl, so you can invent whatever syntax you want because it's all just strings anyway.
by nerdponx 3y ago
I thought the trick with Rebol is that it's "stringly-typed" like Tcl, so you can invent whatever syntax you want because it's all just strings anyway.
- bradrn 3y agoNo, Rebol is not stringly-typed at all. Quite the opposite — like I said, it relies on having a large range of built-in datatypes.
- nerdponx 3y agoThanks for clarifying. Any tips for getting started with it myself? It seems very different from other languages.
- bradrn 3y agoI’m only a novice myself, really. Rebol and descendants tend to have little documentation, but poking around the websites [0] [1] should be enough to get started. [0] http://www.rebol.com/docs.html http://www.rebol.com/docs.html [1] https://www.red-lang.org/p/documentation.html https://www.red-lang.org/p/documentation.html (NB. Red is a descendant of Rebol; they’re not the same, especially with more advanced features, but they’re still similar enough that the documentation transfers over easily.)