Re: [q-lang-users] sum not working (x86_64 / linux)

[Ethan G. <ee...@fa...>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:21 +0100, "Ethan Grammatikidis"
<ee...@fa...> wrote:
> Hiyos. I just installed Q today, submitting a Source Mage GNU/Linux
> 'spell' for it, so that's one more distro that carries Q.
> 
> At least one function, sum, is not working. The manual gives the
> following example:
> ==> sum [1..123456]
> 7620753696
> 
> I entered something similar with different results:
> ==> sum [1..100]
> sum
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100]
> 
> simpler uses of sum do not work either:
> ==> sum 1 2
> sum 1 2
> 
> The splash text may be of interest:
> 0 ethan@vardo q-pure (0) $ q
> def: error loading module
> Warning: 141 unresolved external symbols
>   ____
>  / __ \    Q interpreter version 7.11 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> / /_/ /    Copyright (c) 1991-2008 by Albert Graef
> \___\_\    http://q-lang.sourceforge.net
> 
> This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> License version 2 or later; type `copying' for details.
> ! File def, line 77: Value mismatch in definition
> 
> ==> 
> 
> What is this module "def"? There is no such file either in the source
> tree or installed. I assume a syntax error leading to a bad import
> statement, but how can a nonexistant file have line numbers?
> 
> Testing the install did not produce anything useful:
> 0 ethan@vardo q-7.11 (0) $ q test.q 
> Segmentation fault
> 

A little extra info: As far as I can tell, anything defined in stdlib.q
is unavailable.

Line 77 is the definition of curry:
public curry F;
curry F X Y             = F (X,Y);

The code immediately before surprises me:
public cst X;
cst X _                 = X;

Whyfore the underscore?

-- 
wow.. wondering how to make it more general and less hard-coded is making my head hurt. that's a good sign that it's my code