To my question, Björn Helgason responded: |> I can't seem to easily find this in the documentation: what is the |> maximum line length for entering J sentences into the interpreter? | |_
But I thought there was a recent discussion in one of the forums somewhat recently that there *was* a physical limitation in terms of the number of characters permitted and that, since J lines can't wrap around (using a wraparound character, as in some other programming languages)**, you sometimes had to split lengthy lines into multiple lines (using assignments in earlier lines that would be incorporated into later lines). If my understanding was incorrect and there is no line length limit, that's great! (I'm doing a bit of proselytizing for J with my supervisor, who happens to have been a former programmer and project manager with a well-known insurance company, and I've been preparing some "beginner" teaching material to share with him--and the line-length issue might be a typical question I'd like the answer to.) Thanks! Harvey ** I'm aware, of course, that sentences can spread over multiple visual lines, particularly when using control structure (and I understand your "_" response). My question relates to typing single lines of J code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
