You might have generated an escape sequence which pasted content from
the clipboard, or something of that character.
I do not know what the gtk terminal region is capable of.
--
Raul
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Tirrell, Jordan (Consultant)
<jtirr...@thomasnet.com> wrote:
> I was using roll to generate some random varchar data in jgtk.
> Specifically, the line I executed was
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> <@(a.{~?&256)"_1 @ ?&256 ]10
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> I was very surprised to see output that included a run of 302 chars that
> is a direct quote from a script I had open (but had not run).
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> I know some pseudorandom generators do things like read system memory,
> but the vocab says J uses the Mersenne Twister algorithm by default,
> which I think shouldn't behave like this.
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> Could this be some weird GTK display glitch? I was simultaneously
> experiencing the bug where it can't properly draw boxes.
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> Has anyone else seen this behavior? Unfortunately it's probably next to
> impossible to duplicate.
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> Jordan
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