It is certainly a benefit to have these reported. On Mar 17, 2012 2:08 PM, "Devon McCormick" <devon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a good advertisement for J when something so simple is so > clearly wrong. I would certainly rank fixing an obvious bug over, > say, a performance improvement in a little-used feature like look-up > of symbolic names. > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tracy Harms <kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To clarify, I do think 13&: could be improved. I think your examples can > > help with that. I don't find flaws in this modifier very interesting > among > > possible improvement efforts. > > On Mar 17, 2012 3:45 AM, "Linda Alvord" <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >> David Ward Lambert pointed out the known pitfall that occurs using : > 13 : > >> > >> > >> > >> Would these examples help in correcting the problem? > >> > >> > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y+y' NB. wrong > >> > >> why > >> > >> + > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 3 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y-y' NB. right > >> > >> why > >> > >> -~ > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 0 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y*y' NB. wrong > >> > >> why > >> > >> * > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 1 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y%y' NB. right > >> > >> why > >> > >> %~ > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 1 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y+y+y' NB. wrong > >> > >> why > >> > >> ] + + > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 6 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y-y-y' NB. right > >> > >> why > >> > >> ] - -~ > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 3 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y*y*y' NB. wrong > >> > >> why > >> > >> ] * * > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 3 > >> > >> why=: 13 :'y%y%y' NB. right > >> > >> why > >> > >> ] % %~ > >> > >> why 3 > >> > >> 3 > >> > >> > >> > >> Linda > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
