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>
> Hello list members,
>
> I just asked myself why my code no more worked well when I inserted some
> query using the ask or input instructions.
>
> Before the insert the code was working correctly even if I I transfered it
> to the open console (View 1.3.1) using CUT AND PASTE from
> my editor's window. When I added an ask or an input to stop the running
> script, REBOL then considered the entry completed - probably
> due to the implicit NEWLINE that exists between the lines - and never
> really asked me to type something as an entry to my ask
> instruction.
>
> To remedy to this situation I have to save my code to a file script (.r)
> and execute this new script using do. Then it works but I
> simply asks myself if there is no other way to control the ask behaviour
> to normally process the script as the DO is doing itself.
>
> Is there not some magic switch that REBOL uses to control this facet of
> life ?
>
> Below is some code to illustrate the faulty behaviour (to my eyes):
>
> Every comment is appreciated,
> Regards,
> Gerard
>
> CODE
> =====
>
> crit: "file"
> crit: ask "Enter your own criterion? "
> print "own label" <-- none or one Newline
> can be inserted here
> print crit after the
> line containing the ask
>
>
> Try #1: No newline after the ask
> =====
>>> crit: "file"
> == "file"
>>> crit: ask "Enter your own criterion? "
> Enter your own criterion? print "own label" <-- when no Newline is
> present
> == {print "own label"} REBOL
> considers the next line
>>> print crit as
>>> the string entered by the user
> print "own label"
>
> Try #2: One newline after the ask
> =====
>>> crit: "file"
> == "file"
>>> crit: ask "Enter your own criterion? "
> Enter your own criterion? <-- Here the Newline
> is considered by REBOL
> == "" as
> the end of the ask and this means the "" is
>>> print "own label" returned as
>>> the new value of the crit word.
> own label
>>> print crit
>
>
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