I'd see how abusing {{ .. }} holds up to abuse. Enclose a few hundred
megabytes of text in curlies and see if J can absorb it without crashing.To paraphrase, "spare the rod, spoil the software." On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:09 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought of "0 : 0" too as a solution for this but it gets terminated by > any embedded single closing paren which you would have as part of a > function definition. > I like Raul's idea of abusing the double-curlies notation. > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:01 AM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I usually abuse 0:0 for block comments. > > > > Am 31.08.21 um 16:21 schrieb Raul Miller: > > > In recent J implementations (j902, j903), you can wrap the unwanted > > > section of the script in {{ }}. > > > > > > This will defer execution of those lines and then discard them (which > > > is somewhat fortuitous, since execution of that kind of definition > > > would probably be bad). > > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Raul > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:27 AM 'Rudolf Sykora' via Programming > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Dear list, > > >> > > >> > > >> if I load a (longer) script, I sometimes want to ignore a part of it > > >> beyond a certain line. Is there a way to achieve that gracefully? (I > > >> sometimes just add something syntactically wrong to stop there, on an > > >> error). > > >> > > >> > > >> Thank you. > > >> Ruda > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------- > > mail written using NEO > > neo-layout.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
