Thanks, Brian. I'll mull over it for a day or two. It's certainly grist for the mill.
As Raul points out, I need some pithy "blurb" stashed away in the right places. When the dust has settled (and I have some 3rd-party users) I'll be able to see clearly where, and what. I was hoping to rely on the Lab for everthing to do with the addon. But that was just silly. There's now a wiki page too: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/format/zulu ...which would be the place for the blurb you've written me, maybe as the opening para. Ian On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing that has occurred to me is that in the early J Phrases > document, they referred to certain nouns as "specimens" and maybe your > nouns could build on that framework. Now that I am reminded that zulu > is a phonetic name, it does not seem so bad, but until I perused your > work, my only association with zulu was the international date line. > > I have attempted below to suggest a brief introduction to this addon. > Perhaps you could consider some of its ideas? > > Because strings vary, sometimes dramatically, in their length, it can > be challenging to arrange and delimit them in the array structures > native to J. Some common strategies for managing strings include > putting each string in a J box, or separating strings with common > delimiters such as whitespace and linefeeds. Another format, called > "open" here, is to pad the end of each string with space characters to > force all strings to be the same length and place each padded strings > on its separate row of an "open" J array. This addon utility > provides verbs for understanding these various formats and for better > converting between such formats. The addon defines several categories > of specimen nouns, especially the phonetically defined alphabets > called "zulu" here. By the way, the name "open" is derived from the J > result of opening an array of boxes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
