It comes from deliberately using _. despite warnings against it.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Clark <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 16:44 Subject: [Jprogramming] A J phrase which crashes Java on the iMac To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > _.". 'circ' > > ...causes a hard crash of J on the iMac which loses all J-related > evidence but results in a bug report being mailed off to Apple. > The report is headed: J quit unexpectedly while using the > libj.dylib plugin. > > There's no facility for stopping the report being sent, so I've > spammed Apple trying to investigate a capricious bug in my > application, which turns out to be all down to this. > > The string 'circ' can be replaced by: 'circl', 'chur', and (many?) > words beginning 'chur'. Strangely, 'circle' works ok as expected. > > Is anyone curious as to how someone might stumble upon a bug > like this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
