But that would mean that I am storing variables in the wrong locale and defeats the point of using separate locales in the first place.
I will use a workaround, but I would like to understand what has gone wrong here. Here's how to reproduce: cocurrent 'writenif' put=: 3 : ' 0 0$WRITENIF=:WRITENIF,,y' ic=: 3!:4 write_int=: put@(2&ic) cocurrent 'base' write_int_writenif_ f. |value error: put Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Vijay Lulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at definition of 18!:2 it states "If a name sought in locale f is > not found in f , then it is sought in the locales in the path of f (but not > searching *their* paths)." Hence > > (;: 'writenif z') copath coname '' > > fixes the issue. I don't understand locales completely though! > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Yes - in fact it does fix if I switch to that locale. > > > > What's odd is that I have had no problems with similar verbs in other > > locales. > > > > > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > this would fix in the current locale. (?) put is probably not in the > > > current locale. f. is used as ducktyping in J for crosslocales, and is > > > needed behaviour for coinsert to work like inheritance. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> > > > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > > Cc: > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:14:47 PM > > > Subject: [Jprogramming] wat? (seems like a spurious value error from > f.) > > > > > > Here is the definition of a verb defined in the writenif locale: > > > write_int_writenif_ > > > put@(2&ic) > > > > > > Here are the definitions of the two verbs named in that definition: > > > put_writenif_ > > > 3 : ' 0 0$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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
