Re: [q-lang-users] problem with command line parsing

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

"David Minor" <dah...@gm...> writes:

>    Hello Qusers,
>    With great travail I succeeded in compiling Q on my mac osx 10.3.4
>    system (cannot upgrade because of unavailable ProTools drivers).  Q
>    passed all of it's internal tests, but the most elementary examples in
>    the tutorials return errors, for example:
>    ==> sqr X = X*X;
>    sqr X=X*X
>    ==> sqr 2
>    sqr 2
>    ==> who
>    is my compilation broken or do I just not understand the syntax of the
>    language?

The latter. You don't define functions interactively; write scripts for
those. 


    #!/usr/local/bin/q
    #! -c main || quit

    sqr X = X*X;

    main = printf "%d\n" $ sqr 2 || quit;

gives:
 | zsh/scr9, potato 12:27PM temp/ % ./q.q
 | 4
 | zsh/scr9, potato 12:28PM temp/ %

HTH,

~Tim
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