Thanks for the explanation. It was very helpful. On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pepe reported recently that some code using non-standard J (viz verbs that > return non-nouns) stopped working for beta-g, and supplied an example. > > In beta-g and later, code has been streamlined to take advantage of the > fact that all verbs are internally represented as atoms with the VERB > type. The failing code was trying to execute a block that was stored as a > VERB type with rank 1. This now crashes. Converting verbs to atoms before > execution might cover over the problem. > > Needless to say, there is no guarantee that non-standard code will be > portable over machines, releases, or state lines. > > Henry Rich > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
