Which Antiforms Are In Use?

Very useful!!! :star: :star: :star:

(and has been useful as a place for me to update it over time, to look at how it shapes up and makes sense!)

Do note that the %types.r table encodes the type/antiform information as well: Such as for splice:

block!      "list of elements that blocks evaluation unless EVAL is used"
~splice!~   "fragment of multiple values without a surrounding block"
            (payload1)
            [any-series? any-branch? any-sequencable?]

And for error:

error!        "context with id, arguments, and stack origin"
~failure!~:U  "error state that is escalated to a panic if not triaged"
              (payload1 payload2)
              [any-inert?]

(The :U means the antiform is "unstable".)

In any case, %types.r is a pretty good example of dialecting! As much as possible, it's good to use Rebol to do code generation for properties in the C (and also to put in the binary for HELP)!

%types.r has come a long way since R3-Alpha!

This is what it looked like in R3-Alpha:

A much better strategy has been implemented for specifying granular dispatch, so the last vestiges of weirdness of things like self string + f* file * are gone:

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