uint16 would get a domain error if invoked dyadically. Could that be
happening?
Henry Rich
On 5/20/2011 3:51 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> I have a moderately large and yet inefficient program which I was
> trying to debug.
>
> When I single step into a section of code where something mysterious
> was happening, I am getting (this is in the middle pane of my debugger
> window).
>
> domain error
> uint16[0] glsel ::]'g'
>
> The problem is that uint16 does not contain any such code.
>
> Here is the afflicted code:
>
> uint16
> ''"_ readuint16s
>
> readuint16s
> 1 : 0
> L=:*/2,N=.u y
> 'off txt'=._2{.y
> (_2}.y),(N$uint16s L{.off}.txt);(off+L);txt
> )
>
> uint16s
> 0&(3!:4)
>
> My problem is that I am getting a domain error even when I am not
> running under the debugger. If I set a breakpoint on all lines of
> readuint16s, the domain error happens before the stop takes effect.
> And, yes, if I put a stop on all lines of uint16, and examine its
> argument, I see it is running in a monadic context:
> $(<0 6){::13!:13''
> 1
>
> (And, for reference, 'off' would have been getting the value 4 and
> 'txt' would have been getting a literal which contained 12912
> elements.)
>
> I would like to comment further on this issue, but I have lost my copy
> of the program. I was searching (using Control-F) except the search
> window was behind the debugging window. And, I hit a key at the wrong
> point which replaced the searched for text with the key I hit. And
> then I hit control-Z twice which took me back to the empty state the
> file window apparently was in at the beginning of when I opened the
> file, and then I hit Escape (I am a vi user and thus I hit escape
> habitually), and this erased the file.
>
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