in this case, prin manages to print a newline. please explain
[1/2] from: terrence_brannon::instinet::com at: 13-Sep-2000 15:54
I am trying to understand the Alien Dialect example and ran a part of it and for
some reason prin was generating text with newlines in it. If you only run this
part:
make integer! 4 ** 3
== 64
>> loop-size: make integer! 4 ** 3; example of bad characters
== 64
>> divide-text: func [] [ loop loop-size [ print make char! (7 * 6) ] ]
>> divide-text print "^/"
This prints asterisks but with newlines Two questions:
1- why does the source code say "example of bad characters" after the definition
of the loop-size word?
2- i interpreted the line divide-text print "^/" as:
call divide-text (which prints 64 non-newline-separated *)
then call print "^/"
but evidently the print is being called 64 times along with divide-text somehow.
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[2/2] from: mdb:gci at: 13-Sep-2000 13:06
loop-size: make integer! 4 ** 3; example of bad characters
== 64
>> divide-text: func [] [ loop loop-size [ print make char! (7 * 6) ] ]
>> divide-text print "^/"
You have print in the divide-text func, so will print "*" on a new line.
Replace with prin to print 64 "*" then newline.