I haven't been following the Forums closely, but there has been traffic 
recently regarding invisible Unicode whitespace chars giving J a hard time 
(spelling errors).  Browsers introduce non-breaking spaces or something during 
copy/paste.  Think Raul or Roger posted some tool to identify the issue.

-Dan


Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Vaughan <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:48:48 
To: Programming forum<[email protected]>
Reply-To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Script spelling error

That's the same as it already is. It works if I type it into the browser, just 
not if I load it from a file.

On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:20, Michael Dykman wrote:

> add whitespace after the ':' ie
> 
> sqrt=:DP&$: : (    4 :0)"0
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:08 AM, David Vaughan <[email protected]
>> wrote:
> 
>> I've been getting a lot of these lately, spelling errors.
>> I have a .ijs file with a few extended precision functions in them from
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Extended%20Precision%20Functions,
>> and for some reason I get this when I try to load the script:
>> 
>>  load'J/scripts/precision.ijs'
>> |spelling error
>> |
>> |   ^
>> |   sqrt=:DP&$: :(    4 :0)"0
>> |[-10] /Users/David/J/scripts/precision.ijs
>> 
>> 
>> I have tried deleting all whitespace etc. and I still get the error - I
>> assume that in .ijs files there must be some other syntax I'm missing?
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> - michael dykman
> - [email protected]
> 
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