This was suggested earlier in a comment of Oldes/Rebol-issues#1916, and the discussion there is relevant. In particular, it is unnecessary to add a TRANSCODE keyword to the PARSE dialect; the existing operations will do just fine if they are extended a bit.
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Submitted by: IngoHohmann
Rebol's LOAD already knows how to parse a string into, e.g. an int!,
Allow to use this as predefined rules in string parsing.
Benefit: now everyone is creating his own rules, this way there would be a body of predefined, and presumably very fast, rules for rebol datatypes.
Imported from: CureCode [ Version: r3 master Type: Wish Platform: All Category: Unspecified Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ] Imported from: https://github.com/rebol/rebol-issues/issues/2035
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Submitted by: BrianH
This was suggested earlier in a comment of Oldes/Rebol-issues#1916, and the discussion there is relevant. In particular, it is unnecessary to add a TRANSCODE keyword to the PARSE dialect; the existing operations will do just fine if they are extended a bit.