[Jprogramming] path separator

[Ric Sherlock]

The point is that PATHSEP_j_ isn't defined by default when you boot up
a new session in J7. So it can't be counted on for
cross-platform/version development.

I don't have all the addons installed but a find in files on my
~system and ~addons folders only finds one place the noun PATHSEP is
assigned a value is in ~addons/ide/jhs/jfif.ijs where it is assigned
PATHSEP=: '/'


2011/11/30 Björn Helgason <gosinn at gmail.com>:
> You can find PATHSEP here and there in J701
>
> PATHSEP=: '/\'{~6=9!:12''
>
> 2011/11/29 Ric Sherlock <tikkanz at gmail.com>
>
>> PATHSEP_j_ is v6 specific (or at least pre-J7 specific). In J6 it was
>> set at the beginning of the J bootup, based on your operating system
>> and other utilities were then defined in terms of PATHSEP_j_ (e.g.
>> jhostpath). With the decision to standardize on '/' as the path
>> separator for all OSs in J7 PATHSEP_j_ was no longer necessary.
>>
>> Unfortunately there are still some foreign conjunctions in J7 that
>> return '\' as the path separator on Windows.
>>
>> 2011/11/30 Björn Helgason <gosinn at gmail.com>:
>> > PATHSEP is in J601 as well as J602 and J701
>> >
>> > 2011/11/29 Tracy Harms <kaleidic at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> How does the noun PATHSEP_j_ relate to this discussion? Is it v6
>> specific,
>> >> or valid for both v6 and v7?
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Ric Sherlock <tikkanz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I wasn't aware that it had made it into j602, but see that it is
>> >> > indeed now a cover of jhostpath in J6. So jpathsep should enable you
>> >> > to force any path to use the "standard" path separator expected by any
>> >> > particular combination of J version (6 or 7) and OS.
>> >> >
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>> > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum
>> >          /|_      .-----------------------------------.
>> >         ,'  .\  /  | Með léttri lund verður        |
>> >     ,--'    _,'   | Dagurinn í dag                     |
>> >    /       /       | Enn betri en gærdagurinn  |
>> >   (   -.  |        `-----------------------------------'
>> >   |     ) |         (\_ _/)
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> Fornustekkum II
> 781 Hornafirði,
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> Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans
>
> góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum
>          /|_      .-----------------------------------.
>         ,'  .\  /  | Með léttri lund verður        |
>     ,--'    _,'   | Dagurinn í dag                     |
>    /       /       | Enn betri en gærdagurinn  |
>   (   -.  |        `-----------------------------------'
>   |     ) |         (\_ _/)
>  (`-.  '--.)       (='.'=)   ♖♘♗♕♔♙
>   `. )----'        (")_(") ☃☠
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