Right - it's not a bug in J -- it's a bug in the sentence where its result
conflicts with the advent of code day 5 spec.

I only just now realized that Henry must have thought I was talking about a
J engine bug - but there's not one of those here.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Wednesday, December 6, 2017, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think there is a "bug" in J. It is just that the sentence solution
> doesn't give the correct answer to the problem as specified, because J
> interprets index _1 as wrapping back around round rather than as an error.
> The problem specification is that if the index is less than 0 then the
> solution is complete.
>
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Looks right to me.
> >
> > Henry Rich
> >
> > On 12/6/2017 9:04 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> >
> >>     #(([+{);>:@{`[`]})&>/ ::]^:a:@(0&;) 0 _2 0 0
> >>
> >> 10
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >>
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