Me too.  I found one of these things that had been in a
working application for years.  It was supposed to log some
information out in case of error, but instead it did nothing.
When eventually I needed to look at the log, I discovered
the bug, but too late to help with the problem I needed
the log for.

Henry Rich

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bill lam
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:40 PM
> To: Beta forum
> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] J601M Bugs in Debug lab
> 
> I guess "wd'set text *',TXT" is executed as v (n v v) so result is a 
> verb in J601.  It has been suggested to raise an error if there is a 
> orphan verb that is not assigned to a name within explicit 
> definitions. 
>   but Roger Hui ruled it out.  I still wish this can be done perhaps 
> provide an additional switch to turn if off just like 
> "assert." to catch 
> bugs that are hard to spotted during development.
> 
> David Mitchell wrote:
> > I found two problems with the Debug lab in J601M beta.
> > 
> > The first was 3 of 27, which says:
> > 
> >   "The ? button on the Debug toolbar displays the Debug Help file."
> > 
> > I couldn't find a "?" button on the Debug toolbar.
> > 
> > The second problem was 16 of 27:
> > 
> >   "The display should show goo suspended at line 2, with a 
> syntax error."
> > 
> > Line 2 of goo was
> > 
> > wd'set text *',TXT
> > 
> > where TXT is not defined, which, as a single sentence, resulted in:
> > 
> > +--+------------------+
> > |wd|+----------+-+---+|
> > |  ||set text *|,|TXT||
> > |  |+----------+-+---+|
> > +--+------------------+
> > 
> > In J504, the result of the sentence alone was:
> > 
> > |domain error: wd
> > |       wd'set text *',TXT
> > 
> > in a script, the result was:
> > 
> > |syntax error: goo
> > |       wd'set text *',TXT
> > 
> > Lorin Lund first reported this change 2005/12/22.
> > 
> > David Mitchell
> > 
> > 
> > 
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