Then we are talking about the same thing since I did not write "if one ignores them" but "if one tries to ignore them" instead; it does not matter that Dan's ae does not mention any "peculiar character" (incidentally, there was some pun intended in that post), not even behind the scenes.
[Jchat] [Jgeneral] Looks like a bug in ". Raul Miller rauldmiller at gmail.com Thu Aug 20 01:33:38 HKT 2009 Previous message: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] tacit definition Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jose Mario Quintana<josemarioquintana at 2bestsystems.com> wrote: > But if you insist: ... My point was that using a name is not ignoring the name. That said, I listed the ones I knew would fail in the context of ae, but I missed one (possibly several). -- Raul -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Jgeneral] Looks like a bug in ". Jose Mario Quintana josemarioquintana at 2bestsystems.com Wed Aug 19 22:53:48 HKT 2009 Previous message: [Jgeneral] Looks like a bug in ". Next message: [Jgeneral] Looks like a bug in ". Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is right; unfortunately x, y, u, v, m, and n are peculiar characters which can explicitly strike back even if one tries to ignore them. Using your very own anonymous evocation tool ( http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2007-November/008816.html ) as an example: ae =: ("_) (`(<1;~,'0')) (((<,':') <@:, (<1;~,'0') <@:, (,'0') <@:(;<) ,&>@:,@:(<^:(0=L.)))`) (`:6) ((<1;~,'0')`) (`:6) x=. @[ y=. @] '<y'ae NB. OK... <@] '<x'ae NB. Here it comes... +-+ |1| +-+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
