copy all files in a directory ... a little help please?

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I was proposing a little "object creation dialect" which let you make objects easily, such as by naming a few fields:

obj: { type name value }

So that would make:

&[object! [
    type: ~null~
    name: ~null~
    value: ~null~
]]

But then scaling up to more features, like being able to inject initializations for things you wanted with GROUP! (without forcing you to use a SET-WORD!), or using a SET-WORD! and then having things after it... or using QUASI-WORD! to say you wanted to initialize the field to trash instead of null:

{
    type ('document)  ; initialization: no SET-WORD!, just GROUP!
    name
    public
    system
    form
    ~head~  ; alternative way to ask for trash initialization vs. null
    body: copy []  ; initialization: no group necessary, just SET-WORD!
    parent: ~
    first
    last
    warnings
}

This made me think back to your question:

And wondering how--with the benefit of hindsight--you would answer the "how is it done" question?

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