Is anyone loading a J script which is a few hundred megabytes in size? That would be ... interesting. (I am trying to imagine the purpose of such a script.)
Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:13 AM John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
