Reflecting further on this statement, I think it’s true not just of dialects as such, but of the whole Rebol language more broadly. Rebol code is very free-form: a lot of the time, it’s simply a list of values without much further structure. Thus, it’s possible for dialected and regular code to ‘feel’ very similar with minimal effort — both can appear reasonably free-form, with only the interpretation rules changing. In both cases, you are reliant on the types and ordering to understand the semantics.