[Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program'

2012-08-31 Thread Mike Parr
Hi I'm very new to factor - around 2 days - so I hope you don't mind me mailing so early. I have some comments/improvements/corrections not sure which) to the series of docs entitled Getting Started / Your First Program (i.e the palindrome stuff). Should I post them here, or discuss them

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program'

2012-08-31 Thread John Benediktsson
This is a good place, the tutorial has had a few contributors to it and we welcome more - and questions, too! If you want to submit your improvements here or through Github, either is fine. Best, John. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Mike Parr mikep...@live.com wrote: Hi I'm very new to

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Mike Parr
OK, here are some suggestions for the 'Getting Started - Your First program' stuff - the palindrome. I am using Windows 7. 'Creating a vocabulary...' Excellent 'Writing some logic in your first program' After it says 'Place this definition at the end of your source file.' I suggest

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread John Benediktsson
Hi Mike, Great input, thanks! A few questions - 'Writing some logic in your first program' After it says 'Place this definition at the end of your source file.' I suggest adding: 'Note that a space is significant in Factor.' What exactly are you trying to communicate with this -- that we

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Clagett
Just thought I would mention that there is no Ctrl key on the Mac, so this change might not be so good for the Mac folks. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:47 PM, John Benediktsson mrj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Great input, thanks! A few questions - 'Writing some logic in

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Joe Groff
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Michael Clagett mclag...@hotmail.com wrote: Just thought I would mention that there is no Ctrl key on the Mac, so this change might not be so good for the Mac folks. Yes, there is. (Unless you mean the original Mac 128k and 512k, which Factor does not yet

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Clagett
I just meant that it's not called control, it's called command. So you could probably get by with something like Ctrl(Cmd)-C. Or Cmd(Ctrl)-C, if you favor Macs. Or you could stick with the C-c and just explain somewhere at the top that on a PC that means Control and on a Mac it means

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Joe Groff
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Michael Clagett mclag...@hotmail.com wrote: I just meant that it's not called control, it's called command. So you could probably get by with something like Ctrl(Cmd)-C. Or Cmd(Ctrl)-C, if you favor Macs. Or you could stick with the C-c and just explain

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Clagett
Okay, never mind. Not being a Mac guy, I must not understand it well enough. But on my wife's and daughter's MacBook Pros I usually find that Command + some key is roughly equivalent to Ctrl + the same key on the PC. Never noticed that there was also a Ctrl key. Sorry for the noise.

Re: [Factor-talk] Comments on 'Your First Program

2012-08-31 Thread Joe Groff
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Michael Clagett mclag...@hotmail.com wrote: Okay, never mind. Not being a Mac guy, I must not understand it well enough. But on my wife's and daughter's MacBook Pros I usually find that Command + some key is roughly equivalent to Ctrl + the same key on the