On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Lau B. Jensen <[email protected]> > Where can I go get an overview of the open issues, and also some stats > on the issues that have been with J thus far? And would you old-timers > say that bugs in the J interpreter is a 'problem' which you face > regularily? Because with J's special notation, I really need to be able > to trust the output :)
Pages linked from here http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Requests%20&%20Bug%20Reports give a reasonably decent overview of bug issues. The interpreter is implemented in C, the base library in J, the front ends are currently implemented in Java. In my experience, most of the J bugs I have run into have been in the context of GUI programming (typically because I am calling out to a foreign library which is buggy). I have encountered interpreter bugs, but they have been rare (and workarounds are easy once they have been identified -- usually they occur where an optimization does not handle an obscure case properly, so rephrasing the data or the code to avoid that optimization is usually sufficient). That said, sparse arrays have only limited support, and have given me more interpreter problems than anything else. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
