Re: [q-lang-users] Just starting with Q

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Burton Samograd wrote:
> I did just check your above code and my own code, and neither of them
> run when the --no-prelude option is given (both return the "cat
> <<File>>") but both work fine otherwise.

Strange. What's your hardware platform? If you have the time, please do 
send me a debug log of the failing computation, i.e., with --no-prelude 
-d. Maybe I can then figure out what's going on there.

> Yes, that is true; bugs always lurk, and I have to admit, I'm really
> good at finding the obscure ones over the course of my lifetime ;-)

Then you're most welcome here. ;-) What we really need now that Q slowly 
gains more traction is a lot of testing. Q has been quite stable for a 
while now, but in the 7.x series I added a bunch of important new 
features for which I had to touch almost every source module, so some 
fallout from these changes was to be expected.

The new Q Yacc and Lex also keep shaking out compiler bugs, like program 
generators often do, so I'm planning to do another bugfix release as 
soon as I'm finished with those tools. It would be nice if this release 
could also address the issue that you encountered.

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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