Thank you, excellent! (I'll need to play with the 5!:6 thing. ) I tried using project, but couldn't find much documentation. (It struck me earlier that new users, once they have installed J with its 3 interfaces, are left with precious little documentation about any of them.)
> On Oct 10, 2019, at 9:05 PM, 'robert therriault' via General > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jim and Raul, > > I tend to keep my scripts in projects, as it is a very simple way to load all > the associated script with a given project and as you add scripts they are > brought forth with the project the next time that you open it. > > Once working with a script, I tend to include my test suite at the end of the > script so that every time that I load I can see if changes have broken > anything. I just use an anonymous verb like this: > > 3 : 0 '' > assert. (ucp 9 u: 16bd7ff 16bdc00)-: 55295 65533 > assert. (ucp 9 u: 16bd800 16bdc00)-: ,65536 > ) > to run through the tests. > > 5!:6 <'t' [ t=. ucp 9 u: 16bd7ff 16bdc00 NB. the sentence following the =. > is whatever test result you want to capture > > This is a quick way to develop results for my tests that will fit on one line > even for multidimensional nouns. > > If I am going to make a substantial change I save a new version of the script > and work forward from there. The new version is the one that will open then > next time I open the project, while the previous versions are accessible > through the side bar of the project. > > The execution window I use to test out parts of the scripts by copying and > pasting. I often assign global _base_ locale variables in the script to be > able to access intermediate results easily in the execution window. I > sometimes use debug, but probably not as often as I should. It just doesn't > fit my style I guess. When I load a script containing a test suite the first > assert error shows up in the execution window to let me know what may have > broken. > > Cheers, bob > >> On Oct 10, 2019, at 1:18 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And if I'm working on the details of a sentence, I might do that >> solely in the execution window. But loading the script with Cmd-L >> happens from the script window. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
