It's what Raul suggested and it's something that has bitten me in the past as well.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:59 AM, PackRat <pack...@anet.com> wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > > It's hard to visualize what is happening here. It's possible, for > > example, that you have shadow definitions (this can happen if you > > are using =. in the definition -- then the script will not overwrite > > any existing definition). > > There could be other issues also. It's really hard to isolate a > > problem when we cannot inspect it for ourselves. > > and Devon McCormick wrote: > > It's extremely hard to figure out what's going on with only vague > > descriptions and guesses at what might be the problem. People are > > eager to help if you can provide enough code for them to reproduce > > the error. You'll often find the error yourself in the process of > > reducing the code to the minimum required to show others how to get > > it. > > I know this is the advice usually given in instances like this. That's > why I delayed writing until I was frustrated beyond my limit. The > explicit verb definition had only 5 lines, like this: > > verbname=. 4 : 0 > line to retrieve arg x > line to retrieve arg y > smoutput results > ) > > That's what frustrated me so much: the verb was doing absolutely > minimal stuff. In preparation for sending the full script, I loaded a > new instance of J, and this time it consistently gave a "value error" > (different from what I had reported), which didn't make sense either. > So I looked over and looked over the code again. And then I saw it, > the simplest of typos: I had written =. instead of =: ! > > When I corrected it, things ran fine. Thanks for the help in seeing > this! > > > Harvey > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
