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REBOL [ Title: "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall in REBOL" Author: Neal Ziring Email: ziring@home.com Date: 17-Oct-1998 File: %99beer.r Version: #REBOL-1-0-1 Purpose: "Print the famous iterative beer song" Comment: { This is an example of a program in REBOL that prints the famous 99 bottles of beer on the wall song. For more information on REBOL go to the web site www.rebol.com. This program is deliberately over-complicated to hot-dog some fancy features of REBOL. } ] song: [ Verse [ [if num > 0 [num] else ["No more"] ] " " [if num == 1 ["bottle"] else ["bottles"] ] " of beer on the wall," 1 [if num > 0 [num] else ["No more"] ] " " [if num == 1 ["bottle"] else ["bottles"] ] " of beer!" 1 "Take one down, pass it around!" 1 [if num - 1 > 0 [num - 1] else ["No more"] ] " " [if num - 1 == 1 ["bottle"] else ["bottles"] ] " of beer on the wall." 2 ] Finale [ "Time to buy more beer!" 1 ] ] processItem: func [item num] [ if integer? item [loop item [prin newline] ] if string? item [prin item] if block? item [ftmp: func [num] item prin ftmp num ] exit ] dosong: func [start] [ bottlesleft: start until [ foreach item song/Verse [processItem item bottlesleft] bottlesleft: bottlesleft - 1 (bottlesleft == 0) ] foreach item song/Finale [processItem item 0] return none ] dosong 99
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