On OSX with 7.01 I get this problem when I think I should be getting an out of memory error. It is very irritating to lose everything. :<
On 26 Sep 2011, at 00:00, Nick Simicich wrote: > I see that there is entry on the J wiki about the fact that there is no > workspace save in > J<http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/General%20FAQ/Workspace> that > asserts that there is no built-in workspace save. > > But then I thought that it should be possible to save a workspace in J. Not > with a built in save, but with a function that enumerates names of different > types, classifies them, writes them to files and puts them back together. > > I think that such a function would have to go through the list of objects > (definitions and nouns), determine type, and convert it to some format that > could be written to a file. > > The biggest problem I see is that some nouns would be unable to be converted > to nouns in a definition...you could create special verbs that could > recreate those nouns, maybe all of them at once, and then delete the > creating verb once it had done its job. Or maybe you could put everything > into a file in a special format and then have the "restore workspace" verb > read the create verb and put the defined functions and nouns back. > > In my adventures in programming, I occasionally do something that freezes my > whole machine because I overcommit memory so bad that I can't get through, > and then if I've built tables in my workspace I lose them, because all I can > do is x out. > > Overcommiting is serious - it gets so bad that I can't get to anyplace I can > start the break program from, so all I can do is click on the kill window > box, and that gets me out. > > Has anyone tried to write a "save" verb? Or one that saves the base locale, > or some named locale? > > or is it just impossible because of something I don't get? > > -- > Of course I can ride in the carpool lane, officer. Jesus is my constant > companion. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
