Re: Prototype erasing variable

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

    Hi Mr. Sunday,
      
      thanks for reporting this.
      
      Fixed in SVN 1647.
      
      Best Regards,
      Jürgen

On 2/19/23 6:42 PM, Mr. Sunday wrote:

GNU APL replaces a variable's contents when taking the prototype with 0⍴⊂.  Note also that a second variable assigned to the original variable is also affected.

                    ______ _   __ __  __    ___     ____   __

                   / ____// | / // / / /   /   |   / __ \ / /

                  / / __ /  |/ // / / /   / /| |  / /_/ // /

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      data←1 2 3 ('ABCDE' (10 20 30 40 50 60 70))

      save←data

      ⊃data save

1 2 3   ABCDE  10 20 30 40 50 60 70

1 2 3   ABCDE  10 20 30 40 50 60 70

      ⍴⊂data

      ⊃data save

1 2 3   ABCDE  10 20 30 40 50 60 70

1 2 3   ABCDE  10 20 30 40 50 60 70

      0⍴⊂data

      ⊃data save

0 0 0          0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0          0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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