Looking at definition of 18!:2 it states "If a name sought in locale f is not found in f , then it is sought in the locales in the path of f (but not searching *their* paths)." Hence
(;: 'writenif z') copath coname '' fixes the issue. I don't understand locales completely though! On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes - in fact it does fix if I switch to that locale. > > What's odd is that I have had no problems with similar verbs in other > locales. > > > > -- > Raul > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > this would fix in the current locale. (?) put is probably not in the > > current locale. f. is used as ducktyping in J for crosslocales, and is > > needed behaviour for coinsert to work like inheritance. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> > > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > Cc: > > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:14:47 PM > > Subject: [Jprogramming] wat? (seems like a spurious value error from f.) > > > > Here is the definition of a verb defined in the writenif locale: > > write_int_writenif_ > > put@(2&ic) > > > > Here are the definitions of the two verbs named in that definition: > > put_writenif_ > > 3 : ' 0 0$WRITENIF=:WRITENIF,,y' > > ic_writenif_ > > 3!:4 > > > > Here is what happens when I try to fix that definition: > > write_int_writenif_ f. > > |value error: put > > | write_int_writenif_ f. > > > > I get similar errors when I try to use those verbs, which is why I was > > using fix - to try and isolate the error. > > > > I'm not seeing what I did wrong here. Can someone help me out? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
