I suspect Henry meant the following: The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:32 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] identifying the calling function To: 'Programming forum' <[email protected]> > Henry wrote: > > In the old days, turning on debug made my big > > apps crash. I think it's been fixed now, but > > I'm still like Mark Twain's cat. > > "[It's] said a person that started in to carry a cat > home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always > going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to > grow dim or doubtful." > -Tom Sawyer Abroad > > > 9!:14'' NB. J7 > j701/beta/2009-12-06/14:40 > > > sr =: 1 : 'u y' > > 13!:0]1 NB. Debug on > 13!:8 ] > 12 NB. Assertion (stop) > |assertion failure > | 13!:8]12 > > (+ sr ) > f. NB. J crashes here > > -Dan > > PS: My cat is named $: . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
