Note that if you quote the ^L or put it in a Note'' script, it does not matter how J parses the character.
That said, it sounds wrong that the line ending changes the significance of the character - I think that I would not like that behavior preserved in future versions of J. Thanks, -- Raul On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Michal Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > So: in a bizarre twist, it seems that the dos2unix program I was using > to test whether line endings mattered is also a unix2dos program, and so > my results were unreliable. > > It turns out line endings *do* matter: J happily treats ^L as whitespace > when using unix-style ^J line endings, but treats it as an (ill-formed) > identifier when using DOS-style ^J^M endings. > > So now the trick is just getting the JQt editor to preserve the line ending > style... :) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
