I used the link to the "Earlier Reference Sources". Found the link you sent me buried in "Ancillary Pages". Something so useful should be easier to find.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:23 AM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes it is: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Foreigns#m9 > > Henry Rich > > On 3/10/2023 11:06 AM, Don Guinn wrote: > > What is 9!:55 ? > > > > Not shown in the !: conjunction. > > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:46 AM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> If we do that, should we revisit the question of ignoring the BOM (Byte > >> Order Mark) that editors sometimes put at the beginning of scripts? > >> > >> Does the shebang take advantage of the fact that the first line is > >> parsed into a bunch of undefined names taken to be a verb? Does that > >> mean that if username is 'monad', or any noun defined in the user's > >> profile, that the script will fail? > >> > >> If so, I think that should be changed. I would like to encourage users > >> to use 9!:55 to find garbage lines and they can't very well do that if > >> we depend on them. > >> > >> Is there a good reason not to ignore the shebang line explicitly, rather > >> than putting our faith in garbage processing? > >> > >> > >> Henry Rich > >> > >> On 3/10/2023 12:04 AM, Elijah Stone wrote: > >>> Perhaps it's simply time to tell the interpreter to start ignoring the > >>> first line of a script if it starts with #!... > >>> > >>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Raul Miller wrote: > >>> > >>>> The recent change in directory naming from j903 to j9.4 introduces an > >>>> interesting issue for shell scripts on unix-like systems. > >>>> > >>>> In J shell scripts, this works: > >>>> > >>>> #!/home/username/j903/bin/jconsole > >>>> > >>>> However, this fails with a spelling error: > >>>> > >>>> #!/home/username/j9.4/bin/jconsole > >>>> > >>>> Or, on OSX, the shebang line is different, but the spelling error > >>>> remains: > >>>> > >>>> #!/Applications/j9.4/bin/jconsole > >>>> > >>>> That said, there's some other issues here, related to portability. One > >>>> of which is that (as a general rule) a home directory is personal > >>>> rather than portable. Another is that there's official java jconsole > >>>> which does not understand J. > >>>> > >>>> But, also, for a long time now, Debian based distributions have been > >>>> distributing j with /usr/bin/ijconsole as a symbolic link to the > >>>> current installed location for J. (Here, the 'i' in ijconsole stands > >>>> for Iverson.) > >>>> > >>>> So I think that now would be a good time to adopt that as "documented > >>>> standard practice" for j shell scripts. > >>>> > >>>> FYI, > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Raul > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
