Copying and pasting is recommended, when possible. It takes a bit to learn where whitespace in J is meaningful, and where it isn't.
New lines are meaningful, of course, in a rather obvious way. Spaces are necessary to separate names and numbers from one another, just like every other language. Space is also needed before a primitive that starts with . or : . Spacing is often used to help reading by separating verbs, but for most primitives that's not required. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DIETER ENSSLEN<[email protected]> wrote: > thanks John re your DP=40 example > > extremely tricky stuff > > one tries to enter precisely what one is given, ponders whether there are > meaningful > spaces or not, catches | vs l and still gets syntax errors > > syntax errors and ill formed numbers with the line b%~(x:!.0y... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
