There is at least one production system I'm aware of where they actually use lines that are many thousands of characters long.
Which of course begs the question: why would you want to do this? The system to which I referred above values the obscurity so obtained but most people would not. On 3/21/08, Hahn, Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail
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