The die word was called by the library. Unless you called it yourself, you have triggered a bug in Factor. Please report. Starting low level debugger... Basic commands: q -- continue executing Factor - NOT SAFE im -- save image to fep.image x -- exit Factor Advanced commands: d -- dump memory u -- dump object at tagged . -- print object at tagged t -- toggle output trimming s r -- dump data, retain stacks .s .r .c -- print data, retain, call stacks e -- dump environment g -- dump generations data -- data heap dump words -- words dump tuples -- tuples dump refs -- find data heap references to object push -- push object on data stack - NOT SAFE code -- code heap dump READY Nursery: Start=7f367d500000, size=200000, end=7f367d700000 Aging: Start=7f367cd00000, size=400000, end=7f367d100000 Tenured: Start=7f3670d00000, size=c000000, end=7f367cd00000 Cards:base=7f3670c0d010, size=ca400 READY