[aplusdev] Re: A problem with "Find"

[John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]

Vladimir,

This is a bug in 4.18-7, try the latest release 4.18-8.

Thanks,
John


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Vladimir N. Kutinsky wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I faced a very interesting problem. Today I tried to run my old A+ script and
> it
> didnt work. After about two hours I noticed that the following command gives a
> weird
> result:
>     X<- 5.1 5.1 4.4 5.4 5 7.7 6.1 6.8 5.6 6.7 6.4 6 6.7 5.5 5.5
>     X{iota}X
> 0 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
>
> This is what happens on my PC with 4.18-7+ version of A+. Since I wrote my old
> script having 4.18-5 version of A+ installed, I erased the 7th version and
> installed the old 5th one. It worked fine!
>     X<- 5.1 5.1 4.4 5.4 5 7.7 6.1 6.8 5.6 6.7 6.4 6 6.7 5.5 5.5
>     X{iota}X
> 0 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 9 13 13
>
> This is not, however, the end of it. To confirm my idea I erased the 5th
> version
> and installed the 7th version again. It gave me a BRAND new result:
>     X<- 5.1 5.1 4.4 5.4 5 7.7 6.1 6.8 5.6 6.7 6.4 6 6.7 5.5 5.5
>     X{iota}X
> 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
>
> The second (and all follwing) run gave a NEW result, though still the one I
> dont understand
>     X{iota}X
> 0 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 10 15 15 13 15
> ................................................................................
>
>     X{iota}X
> 0 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 10 15 15 13 15
>
> What is it? a bug or a new feature I'm not aware of?
> Can anyone help me with that, please?
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
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