Share some obfuscated but analogous data that still demonstrates the problem. I 
did this for my very first bug report to this Forum a decade ago (it was a 
trade log I obscured with >:&.(a.&i.) ).

-Dan

Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.

On Apr 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was asked to not share the data which was failing (it's part of a
> "challenge").
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dumping out the 3!:3 of the variant operands would be a starting point.
>> 
>> Henry Rich
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/20/2013 1:48 PM, Dan Bron wrote:
>>> 
>>> A few examples, including objectives,  expected and observed results,
>>> along with a description of your operating environment (OS & word size)
>>> might be a start, even if we can't individually reproduce those results.
>>> 
>>> Here is a release note from J6.02 which announces (potentially relevant)
>>> optimizations in this area:
>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/release/underai.htm
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To determine if this change is responsible for the symptoms, you might try
>>> some experiments in a pre-J6.02 interpreter.  If it is responsible, it's a
>>> good bet that the optimization is implemented in the &. conjunction, so we
>>> could start out investigation in the source code of that primitive.
>>> 
>>> -Dan
>>> 
>>>  Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.
>>> 
>>> On Apr 20, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have been seeing inconsistent results from the dyad
>>>>   22 b.&.(a.&i.)
>>>> 
>>>> I do not have a repeatable test - the variations seem to be path
>>>> dependent (same data gives different results depending on how the data
>>>> was generated). However, replacing the above dyad with a more verbose
>>>> alternative apparently prevented the inconsistencies from occurring.
>>>> 
>>>> This smells like buggy special code but it might be some external
>>>> dependence (perhaps an uninitialized value?)
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, I do not currently have any good ideas for isolating
>>>> this problem.
>>>> 
>>>> FYI,
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Raul
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