topic Re: Variations of the SILENT IGNORE Trap in Discussions

Variations of the SILENT IGNORE Trap

hogi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:14:40 GMT

In some cases, JMP makes it very hard for a user (or AI) to debug the code.

from: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/AI-scripting-misleading-log/m-p/929994/highlight/true#M108698

@Craige_Hales wrote:

objects ignore messages they don't understand

Here is a wish to remove the issue:
and here are some examples:

Re: Variations of the SILENT IGNORE Trap

hogi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:13:21 GMT

From the original post:

dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp");
kd = dt << KDTable("hello");
result = kd << K Nearest Rows(1, 3);print("finished");

JMP complains about line 3 :

Object 'Data Table' does not recognize the message 'K Nearest Rows'

the actual error in line 2 is silently ignored.

Re: Variations of the SILENT IGNORE Trap

hogi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:21:48 GMT

Move Table Script: 1st argument must NOT be a variable

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );

script_name = "test";
dt << New Script( script_name, "1" );  //no issue with the variable

myGroupName = dt << group scripts( today_str, script_name );
// No issue with the variable - even without a list

dt << Move Selected scripts( script_name, after( "Distribution" ) );
//doesn't understand the variable -> silent ignore