Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

[Blake McBride]

Also, and further showing the point that the formatting is occurring at the wrong place:

      ⎕CR 'ABC'
ABC                
 x←4                
 EN1: Y←5          
 Z←7                
 ⍝ THIS IS A COMMENT
 Z←5  

Those space characters before each line should never happen but does when the file is loaded from a .APL file.

Thanks!

Blake

              

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:56 AM Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

Lastly, I should mention that the first display of ABC is the correct one, and the one that matched IBM APL.

Thanks.

Blake

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:46 AM Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

Greetings,

Echoing some thoughts I've had on this subject, given the trouble we've had with function formatting over the years between the del editor and ⎕CR, I get the impression that function formatting is occurring at the wrong place.  I think internally functions should be stored left-justified always.  The del editor would then be the one adding the formatting for comments and labels.  This way there wouldn't be ongoing problems between the del editor, save, dump, and ⎕CR.

Thanks.

Blake

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:36 AM Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

Greetings,

Look at the formatting.  In particular look at how the lines with labels and comments are indented.  They are indented differently depending on whether the file is saved or dumped.

      ∇ABC[⎕]∇
    ∇
[0]   ABC
[1]   X←4
[2]  EN1: Y←5
[3]   Z←7
[4]  ⍝ THIS IS A COMMENT
[5]   Z←5
    ∇
      )save test
2020-04-08  08:30:48 (GMT-5)
      )dump test
2020-04-08  08:30:52 (GMT-5)
      )load test    

WARNING: filename /home/blake/workspaces/test
    is ambiguous because another file
    /home/blake/workspaces/test.apl
    exists as well. Using the first.

SAVED 2020-04-08 08:30:48 (GMT-5)
      ∇ABC[⎕]∇
    ∇
[0]   ABC
[1]   X←4
[2]  EN1: Y←5
[3]   Z←7
[4]  ⍝ THIS IS A COMMENT
[5]   Z←5
    ∇
      )load test.apl
DUMPED 2020-04-08  08:30:52 (GMT-5)
      ∇ABC[⎕]∇
    ∇
[0]   ABC
[1]    X←4
[2]    EN1: Y←5
[3]    Z←7
[4]    ⍝ THIS IS A COMMENT
[5]    Z←5
    ∇

Thanks!

Blake