Thank you for your quick reply, Henry.

on 1. : that is exactly what I am seeing. Thank you for the explanation.

Jan-Pieter

2015-05-25 13:36 GMT+02:00 Henry Rich <[email protected]>:

> I have been working on the debugger & will look into these.
>
> 0. I'll check.
>
> 1. When you debug a verb with a "header", like
>
> dverb =: 3 : 0"1
> ...
> )
>
> the debugger treats it as a tacit verb and doesn't let you look inside.
> It displays like a tacit verb (which in fact it is!), all on one line, with
> the LFs replaced by (1{a.).  Is this what you are seeing?
>
> To debug it you have to split it into
>
> dverb =: dverbbody"1
> dverbbody =: 3 : 0
> ...
> )
>
> In the next release the debugger will do this automatically for you.  If
> you select dverb for a stop, it will create the body and replace dverb with
> a verb that points to the body.  Stops will be placed into the body.
>
> Henry Rich
>
>
>
> On 5/25/2015 5:31 AM, Jan-Pieter Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Writing a cover verb for dsygv in the Lapack addon, I noticed 2 bugs with
>> the debugger:
>>
>> 0. When you enter a non-existing verb in the "name" field and press enter,
>> the debugger crashes J. This does not happen for the locale field.
>>
>> 1. The debugger seems to have issues with some types of line endings,
>> making newlines show up as what the console shows for (1{a.) (gmail seems
>> to refuse this character here). This seriously hampers debugging, as the
>> debugger shows all code in one single line when an error occurs or when
>> setting a "stop      Line" in the stop manager.
>> An example of this can be seen taking a look at
>> ~/addons/math/lapack/geev.ijs.
>> I presume it's an Unix/Windows line ending issue (I'm on Windows 8.1, 64
>> bit, most recent J, all addons up to date).
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jan-Pieter
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