Hi,
I am afraid that the failed line number is about the granularity of
error information available.
For finer location info (column number) the parser would need to track
the column; currently it
doesn't.
Since ⎕FX is a system functions (which can be called many times) there
is no interfac
Thank you. I did not realise that the number indicated the line where the
error occurred. I have updated the Emacs mode to display an error message
and highlight the line where the error occurred now.
Is there a way to get more detailed information as to what the error was?
Right now I simply disp
Hi Elias,
not on my machine:
⎕FX 'foo[x]' 'x'
1
)fns
Could it be that you had foo defined earlier?
The syntax error is then due to a niladic function called with an axis
(which is no a valid pattern in APL).
The return value of 1 is the index of the line that has caused the error
When I try to define a function that takes no arguments, but does include
an axis argument, the normal function editor complains:
*∇foo[x]*
bad editor command '∇foo[x]' : problem 'Bad function header at Nabla.cc:495'
DEFN ERROR
∇foo[x]
^
However, if I try to define the sa
