Idea: QUOTED! Data Means FOR => FOR-EACH

Domains Dialects/DSLs
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So I had another flash-o-inspiration.

for x [1 thru 3] [
   print [x]
]

Gives you:

1
2
3

But...

for x @[1 thru 3] [
   print [x]
]

Leads to the second parameter to FOR being '[1 thru 3] And that would give you:

1
thru
3

And if you don't like how that looks, you could also use:

for x each [1 thru 3] [
   print [x]
]

1
thru
3

In that case, EACH is making a generator function, so the second argument to FOR is an ACTION! that produces values until it produces a NULL which causes it to stop the FOR.

So I think that resolves that the base level of FOR and MAP is a dialect for generating values. Anyone have ideas for this dialect and how it works besides me? :-/ No, don't worry about it, I'll solve it.

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