Re: seg-fault with deeply nested assignment

[Blake McBride]

Without assigning it to a variable, I don't see what sense the statement even makes.

 (⊃⊃x)

produces an intermediate value.  I can't think of what sense making an assignment to an intermediate value even does.

I think APL should just throw a syntax error as in:

      (+/10 10⍴⍳100)[2]←4
SYNTAX ERROR
      (+/10 10⍴⍳100)[2]←4
      ^                ^

(Surely a syntax error is more appropriate than a segfault!)

What does IBM APL do?

--blake

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:03 PM Rowan Cannaday <address@hidden> wrote:

hello y'all, hope everyone is staying safe.

      x ← 1 (2 3 (4 5))        
      (⊃⊃x)[2;3;] ← 6 7


===================================================
SEGMENTATION FAULT

----------------------------------------
-- Stack trace at main.cc:88
----------------------------------------
0x7F032D7BABBB __libc_start_main
0x557F8B045425  main
0x557F8B1BE755   Workspace::immediate_execution(bool)
0x557F8B099A4B    Command::process_line()
0x557F8B09A45A     Command::do_APL_expression(UCS_string&)
0x557F8B099AE8      Command::finish_context()
0x557F8B0A3698       Executable::execute_body() const
0x557F8B159D4C        StateIndicator::run()
0x557F8B0DB23D         Prefix::reduce_statements()
0x557F8B0DA17D          Prefix::reduce_MISC_F_B_()
0x557F8B0F1F4F           Bif_F12_PICK::eval_B(Value_P)
0x557F8B0EBB33            Bif_F12_PICK::disclose(Value_P, bool)
0x557F8B0EB86A             Bif_F12_PICK::compute_item_shape(Value_P, bool)
0x7F032DCD1520              
0x557F8B04C4AB              
========================================
====================================================

By the way, it works if you use an intermediary variable:

      y←⊃⊃x
      y[2;3;]
4 5
      y[2;3;] ← 5 6
      y
1 0
0 0
0 0

2 0
3 0
5 6

Cheers,

 - Rowan