Re: [Jprogramming] j904-beta-i available

2022-12-13 Thread bill lam
J904-beta-i is available for android. verify gmp is working by executing a simple sentence eg 2x * 2 eformat error message working by 1+'a' On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:00 AM Eric Iverson wrote: > J904-beta-i is available for windows/linux/mac/pi. > > Please install/upgrade and use it so that the

Re: [Jprogramming] j904-beta-i available

2022-12-13 Thread bill lam
The new error message can break J code that relying on checking error messages. To revert to old error messages, add this line somewhere before running your applications 4!:55 <'eformat_j_' On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 1:09 AM Henry Rich wrote: > The two new features that Eric mentioned are well wort

Re: [Jprogramming] j904-beta-i available

2022-12-13 Thread Henry Rich
The two new features that Eric mentioned are well worth waiting for IMO. The conversion to GMP was a big job.  Raul Miller did it.  It brings J up to modern standards of speed and space for extended-precision arithmetic. The new error messages started as an idea of Elijah Stone's and progress

[Jprogramming] j904-beta-i available

2022-12-13 Thread Eric Iverson
J904-beta-i is available for windows/linux/mac/pi. Please install/upgrade and use it so that the release after the beta cycle is as stable as can be. Usually we would end the beta cycle near year end and have a stable release. Multi-threading was ready, but there were a few things we wanted to ge