Hi,
REBOL marks words with a newline flag to help reproduce the
original formatting when printed. Because the words in the original
block were on individual lines, the newline flag got set. When the
words were printed, the additional newline was printed as well.
Hope that clears it up.
- jim
At 01:48 PM 10/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm certainly glad I added the "(possibly idiotic)" to the subject
>line of my first post! ;-)
>
><blush> Yes. That's what I meant. </blush>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>> > ...
>> > b: reduce [q arg]
>> > ...
>>
>> Don't you mean b: reduce [qry arg]
>>
>> The reason REBOL shell drops into a black hole is because Q is assigned the
>> function for quitting the shell.
>>
>
>OK. Now for (possibly idiotic) question 3. When I correct the
>function's definition per the above (header omitted for brevity) ...
>
> types: [
> any-block? any-block!
> any-function? any-function!
> any-string? any-string!
> any-type? any-type!
> any-word? any-word!
> ]
>
> checktype: func [
> arg
> ][
> foreach [qry typ] types [
> b: reduce [qry arg]
> print mold b
> ]
> ]
>
>... and retry, I get the following ...
>
> >> do %describe.r
> >> checktype 3
> [
> any-block? 3]
> [
> any-function? 3]
> [
> any-string? 3]
> [
> any-type? 3]
> [
> any-word? 3]
> >>
>
>... but changing the source code layout of the 'types block to a single
>low (wrapped) line ...
>
> types: [ any-block? any-block! any-function? any-function!
> any-string? any-string! any-type? any-type! any-word? any-word! ]
>
>... produces a result of ...
>
> >> do %describe.r
> >> checktype 3
> [any-block? 3]
> [any-function? 3]
> [any-string? 3]
> [any-type? 3]
> [any-word? 3]
> >>
>
>This baffles me greatly, as I thought that non-quoted whitespace was
>not significant. Any more words of wisdom for a poor dummy?
>
>-jn-
>
>
