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From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Factorials in J
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.061927.28265@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 06:19:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar9.040541.28914@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Organization: Iverson Software Inc.
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_ (infinity) is not yet available, and this is indicated as 
such in the status.doc file.  It is not yet available because 
(a) the implications of _ are pervasive and (b) there is uneven
hardware and C compiler support for _.  

Nevertheless, !174 should have failed more gracefully than it did.
If you'd tell me the machine and the J version, it would help me
a great deal in tracking down this error.  (J runs on over a dozen 
different machines.  On a given error, the possibilities are numerous:
it happens on all versions; it happens on only some machines; it is
my error; it is a C compiler bug; etc. etc. etc.)

Roger Hui
Iverson Software Inc., 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2K9
(416) 925 6096