I don't know. Personally I am perfectly happy with using the J notation as is. I originally did the work to convert the primitives to mnemonics not for display, but to be able to extend the primitives to other number systems. A while back there was interest in displaying the mnemonic names for the primitives. I cleaned up the code to make it more certain to pick the right name. Then, I threw in recognizing idioms - "+/" could translate to "Sum". It was easy to add converting a word like "Sum" to a sigma.
It seems that people keep complaining about the J notation in ASCII but they don't have an easy way to try some things to see if they can come up with anything worthwhile. And it has been a fun exorcise. Roger Hui wrote: >Using "∑i.5" to display "+/i.5" obscures the power >of adverbs. +/x and */x tell you that the two operations are related. Not so >Sigma x and >Pi x. And what do you do for *./x (for example)? >Big LCM? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
