_. <: _ giving 0 is a bug and (I think) had previously been
fixed for the next beta.  It's one of those compiler differences.



----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 5:29
Subject: [Jbeta] J602 incompatibility: _. <: _
To: 'Beta forum' <[email protected]>

> On J602,
> _. <: _
> gives 0.  On 601 it gave 1.
> 
> This is not a bug but it caused me a few minutes' debugging &
> might be mentioned for others.
> 
> It's not a bug because the behavior of _. is undefined.  
> But in
> a way, it is a J problem because working old code breaks in the
> new release.
> 
> Just thinking... I try never to have _. in my data, but it's hard
> to be sure. How hard would it be to have a debug setting that
> gives a domain error if _. is ever produced?  Then I would
> know that I would be immune from a problem like this.
> 
> Henry Rich
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