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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
