They will know immediately, because the comments
will be nicely lined up at the right of the code,
and in the session manager they will be nicely
syntax highlighted with tilted green.
--- Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How is one supposed to know that the APL {lamp}
> symbol is a lamp?
>
> I estimate that 100.0% of all programmers know
> nothing about APL. For such people, NB. is at
> least as readable/understandable/mnemonic as {lamp},
> without the problems associated with entering and
> displaying {lamp}.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Markus Triska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 1:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Displaying J with Unicode Special Symbols
>
> > Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > How is the APL {lamp} symbol an improvement over
> > > NB. as far as being more understandable/readable?
> >
> > It's mnemonic: Comments are supposed to be illuminating, no?
> >
> > All the best,
> > Markus Triska
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