Hi
I am new to Rebol and I must say I like it very much. I've always thought of myself as more of word-smith than a programmer and I have always strived to get my code as close as possible to natural language. It has been my experience that as code approaches natural language, the logic of it approaches intuition. Rebol allows a lot more freedom in that regard than other languages but sometimes I feel that things could be more easily understood if there were connection words, not just verbs and subjects. Perhaps it's because I am a newbie
. What I think is that it would be cool to have comment-words, just like we have set-words, get-words, etc. Comment words would have no effect, they would be just one-word comments.
Assuming the syntax for a comment word would be: .word (preceding the word with a dot), instead of:
send friend detab copy message
(taken from user guide)
you could do:
send friend .a detab copy .of .the message
Of course, it would be appropriate in some places and not in others.
What do you guys think?
MagicDuck
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