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Kaj
Made this group for discussion of Meta

GiuseppeC
Inhave read it has been writte in Rebol3, is it the oldes version?

Kaj
Oldes' version gave me the confidence to return to R3, but eventually I settled on Carl's last version
I needed some code differences to support both, but there were no debilitating problems in Carl's version
The Meta compiler needs to report any occurred errors. In unfortunate cases, they can still be errors in the REBOL code. Oldes' version puts ANSI codes in the output, which I cannot report to all Meta platforms
Perhaps they can be switched off somehow, I didn't look very hard for that. Carl's version is usable so far, and faster
There's also a dialecting regression in Oldes' version. I forgot exactly what it was, but I think it was imported from Red
Kaj
This was it:
>> type? quote ::x
** Syntax error: invalid "word" -- "::x"
I'm using several special word forms to create new lexical types for Meta

Oldes
Oldes
The ANSI codes are hardcoded now.. because I need colors and I was not aware, that there is anybody else who may be still interested.. it should be quite easy to add a compilation config swich and turn it off from the C sources.. It would be hard to turn it off from Rebol side as I use it on many places quite a lot. But it should be also possible.. as it is mostly inside help module and system logging functions, which may be able to filter out the ANSI codes in one place.
Btw... I'm getting close to hit 500 opened issues... https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol-issues/issues
That is almost 1000 less than here: https://github.com/rebol/rebol-issues/issues
Kaj
Yes, it's good to know there is a better version if I hit a problem

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