You should feel free to update the documentation if you find it unclear. I
just added a link to the "8!:0" foreign into the documentation for format
(":) because the foreign allows more precise control of the formatting. I
knew there was some kind of format string we could use to format numbers
b
>The safest way to convert pre-j807 code that will modify content of *data
>is continue to use * but
>remove the leading > (if there) and read result of cd . eg
>pre-j807
>'...' cd cmd;nr;XX
>now
>r=. '...' cd cmd;nr;XX
>XX=. _1{::r
>or
>XX=. _1{:: '...' cd cmd;nr;XX
Ah, yikes, I see what's goi
It's a wiki: if you are sure of your information, improve it.
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Forum asking someone to review it. There is too much to be written for
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The standard interface implements call by value (
I agree the new & is confusing and avoid using it at all.
It doesn't mean you can just replace * with & and everything will work as
before.
The safest way to convert pre-j807 code that will modify content of *data
is continue to use * but
remove the leading > (if there) and read result of cd . eg
I haven't called a custom DLL in some time now; since I have more spare
time, I was noodling around with old code.
Took me a while to notice what was going on; "pass by reference" where you
send a J array to a DLL to be written to wasn't working the way it had in
the past. It actually is documente
