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- From: Mike Kent <70530.1226@CompuServe.COM>
- Subject: NB. nonce error
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:28:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.200045.18139@fnbc.com>, jja@fnbc.com (Joseph Alotta)
- asks
-
- >> whats a nounce [sic] error
-
- and
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- >> btw, anyone know what j stands for? or "NB." as in comments?
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- J (and APL) will signal "NONCE ERROR" when you do something which in
- theory should be OK, but which the interpreter can't handle "for the
- nonce", that is, until the implementor(s) implement it.
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- Yes, someone knows what J stands for, but he ain't saying. OTOH, Ken is
- giving a talk with the suggestive title "From I verson Notation to J".
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- "NB" is academic-ese for "please note" [ Latin, "nota bene"].
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-
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- Joshi asked the master "What is the meaning of 'n.b.'?"
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- The master replied "It is not to be found in any book (q.v.)."
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- Joshi departed and wrote the haiku
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- Cogent
- lucid
- loc. cit.
- op. cit.
- Ibid.
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