Hi Leon,

In regards to (a), I'm not sure if that was intentional or overlooked.

However, (b) is certiainly a feature, as we have disallowed tabs in
favor of spaces only.  Of course you can use tabs in string and
character literals:
    "\twhy tabs?"
    CHAR: \t

Doug


On 4/10/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Slava and friends
>
>  I am new to Factor and like the language and environment very much.  I 
> started
>  playing with the Windows/x85 Factor 0.91 binary, running on WinXP Service 
> Pack
>  2.0.
>
>  Today I pulled the latest source from the factor git repository and build the
>  winnt-x86-32 target and bootstrapped it with boot.x86.32.image, exactly as
>  described on the factor site.  The build and bootstrap processes completed
>  successfully.  When I run the IDE I see the following differences compared to
>  0.91
>
>  (a) Pressing RET in the listener causes the code to be evaluated, instead of
>  going to a new line, even if listener should still be waiting for more input
>  because of parser words being used.  Using Shift+RET allows you now to go to 
> a
>  new line.  E.g. typing : add-two ( a b -- c ) RET, errors instead of 
> inserting
>  a new line.  : add-two ( a b -- c ) Shift+RET + ; RET works correctly.
>
>  (b) When compiling a source file that contains TAB characters, I get a 
> compiler
>  error:
>
>  Word not found in current vocabulary search path
>  "delegate" f
>  "name"     "\t0"
>
>  it would seem like TAB characters is not seen as whitespace.
>
>  It seems to me like these differences might be bugs.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Leon van Dyk
>
>
>
>
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