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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

You're reading from   Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red Get up and running with the Red language for full-stack development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130706
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Red's Mission FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up for Development 3. Using Words, Values, and Types 4. Code-Controlling Structures 5. Working with Series and Blocks 6. Using Functions and Objects 7. Working with Files 8. Parsing Data 9. Composing Visual Interfaces 10. Advanced Red 11. Assessments
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Series and blocks

Let's look at an example. The letters A B C D are contained within the block [A B C D]. Coming from other programming languages, you may be more used to terms such as lists or arrays. These are very much the same as series. In Red, multidimensional arrays can be represented by nested blocks. If you want a more formal definition, we could say that a series is an ordered set of items, which can be values (data) or words (code). In the preceding example, the items are words such as A B and so on (they are not strings or characters), and they must get a value at some time while running the program. In Red, you can manipulate code as easily as you can manipulate data.

=> Now answer question 1 from the Questions section.

Because a series is ordered, each item in it can be referred to by a number—its index. The index in Red starts counting from 1, so...

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