[Bug-apl] Quad ES message too long

2018-04-16 Thread Bill Daly
Jürgen, I've attached the my apl library so that you can recreate my bug if need be. My problem is the messages generated by Quod-es: LINE NAME MUST BE A CHARACTER STRING   'ID' 'TB' 'title' 'A Schedule' 'lines' ('CA' 1 'Current Assets' 'd' (1010 1110 1   310 1320 1390 1410) ' ' 'CL'

Re: [Bug-apl] Quad ES message too long

2018-04-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Bill, I can;t really tell what your program is doing and how the fault resp. feature can be reproduced in a simpler way. What I observed is, however, that the failed line seems to be the only one where proto is a character scalar: Work

Re: [Bug-apl] Quad ES message too long

2018-04-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi again I have analyzed the problem and it looks like the GNU APL behavior is sort of correct even though not very elegant. The background is this: IBM APL2 says (see ⎕ES, page 282 in the language reference manual): When R Is a Ch