[Epic] DO word, path and set-path

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Submitted by: BrianH

We need to unify the behavior of DO when it comes to the behavior of words, paths and set-paths. We already have community consensus (Ladislav did usability surveys).

Related tickets in the first comment, to make linking easier. Status will be updated there.

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^{Imported from: CureCode [ Version: r3 master Type: Issue Platform: All Category: Evaluation Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ]
Imported from: metaeducation#2124}

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Rebolbot commented on Mar 5, 2014:

Submitted by: BrianH

Related tickets:

• DO evaluation of path! and lit-path! not consistent with word! and lit-word! #1434 DO evaluation of path! and lit-path! not consistent with word! and lit-word!
• DO PATH behaviour #1881 Unify DO path and DO path-assigned-to-word, safely
• DO WORD behaviour #1882 Unify DO word and DO word-assigned-to-word, safely
• DO set-path! should trigger an error #1883 Make DO set-path-assigned-to-word an error, like DO set-word-assigned-to-word

#1434 and #1883 are implemented in rebol/rebol#184

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Rebolbot mentioned this issue on Jan 22, 2016:
[Epic] Backwards-incompatible API changes, for the greater good

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