Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Dr . Jürgen Sauermann
I know. And I believe it is wrong. -- Jürgen On 4/9/20 11:22 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > I checked IBM APL2.  They do what I am suggesting.  See the attached > screenshot. > > --blake >

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Elias Mårtenson
Wrong may be an inappropriate word, but I agree that it's a pretty stupid thing to do. If a user formats the code in a certain way, I'd assume he does it because he wants it that way. It's one of the reasons I dislike Go. It automatically reformats your code when compiling. On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, 1

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Blake McBride
Hi Jürgen, Please see my response in-line below. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:07 AM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann < mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > I see what you are after. > > You said earlier that you don't care how functions are stored externally. > At the same time you want the intern

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Blake McBride
Retaining a user's formatting may or may not be a good thing, but it's not APL if it does so. Languages such as C, C++, Java, etc. are Algol-style languages. They retain the user's format. APL is not. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 6:33 AM Elias Mårtenson wrote: > Wrong may be an inappropriate word,

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Dr . Jürgen Sauermann
Hi Blake, see below. Jürgen On 4/10/20 1:34 PM, Blake McBride wrote: Hi Jürgen, Please see my response in-line below. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:07

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Blake McBride
Hi Jürgen, Thanks for your response! See mine below. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 7:31 AM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann < mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > see below. > > Jürgen > > On 4/10/20 1:34 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > > Hi Jürgen, > > Please see my response in-line below. > > On Fri, Ap

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Dr . Jürgen Sauermann
Hi Blake to conclude the discussion I made the following changes (SVN 1259): 1. ⎕CR will always remove unnecessary leading and trailing spaces. Unfortunately this deprives the fans of indentation of any possibility to obtain their loved indented ver

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Blake McBride
Thanks! I have: DISCARD-INDENTATION Yes in my ~/.gnu-apl/preferences file, however: ∇abc [1] 1 [2] 2 [3] 3 [4] [⎕] ∇ [0] abc [1] 1 [2]2 [3]3 ∇ [4] ∇ ∇abc[⎕]∇ ∇ [0] abc [1] 1 [2]2 [3]3 ∇ As you can see, th

Re: Loading .apl files differes from .xml workspaces

2020-04-10 Thread Dr . Jürgen Sauermann
Hi Blake, i am getting this: *  )clear** **CLEAR WS** **  ∇abc** **[1] 1** **[2] 2** **[3] 3** **[4] [⎕]** **    ∇** **[0]   abc** **[1]   1** **[2]   2** **[3]   3** **    ∇** **[4] ∇* I suppose that either your preferences file is wrong (e.g. wrong profile), or not read: (c