[Jprogramming] Nonce error

[Don Guinn]

   9!:9 (<'Your expression as coded not implemented in this version of 
J')10}9!:8''
   %.$.x
|Your expression as coded not implemented in this version of J
|       %.$.x


GerryLowry1(905)825-9582{AbilityBusinessComputerServices} wrote:

>Why not change the error to read:   "Your expression as coded not implemented in this version of J"   ?
>
>There is no promise of a future implementation in the above suggestion.
>
>As with web site design, designers of program error messages
>would benefit by reading Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think"
>     http://www.sensible.com/   http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html
>
>Of course, my Collins tells me nonce means present time or occasion;
>this could be taken to imply "run it again, it might work".
>
>Or, if my background were more nefarious, I might accuse, as already
>mentioned by Dick Bowman , J of calling me a rapist or child molester.
>
>Since Collins gives "nonce word" as "a word coined for a single occasion",
>then I might fairly expect never to see the reported error twice.
>
>
>regards, gerry
>
>gerry lowry              905.825.9582
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