I copied the behaviour from Oleg Kobchenko who I think was one of the early adopters/designers of the JAL.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought you'd say that, Ric, because your wiki pages make good use > of it... :-) > > I 80%-agree with you. If zulu-lite and zulu-bare earn themselves no > friends, then it's the way to go. Mind you, I can do that now, exactly > as you say, and not disturb the foundations of zulu-lite or zulu-bare. > Then I could cut their silly throats at leisure... > > Right-- it's on my to-do list. > > (How do you withdraw an addon?) > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, I too would like to combine the whole thing in one single addon. >>> You'll recall the extensive correspondence (17 posts) that followed my >>> original proposal to do just this, and how best to do it? >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2012-September/029259.html >>> The LAPACK way would be to keep separate "loader" scripts in >>> format/zulu and run them like this: >>> load 'format/zulu/lite' >>> load 'format/zulu/bare' >>> ...etc. >>> I can have as many loader scripts as I can fancy a need for. A lot >>> less trouble than releasing and maintaining three separate addons. But >>> I got the hint from the forum that using load/require in this way is >>> "untidy", and that the preferred programmer interface for using any >>> addon is quite simply: >>> load 'category/addon' >> >> I don't think you should see this as untidy. I don't believe that this >> functionality is undesirable or unintended. I suggest you have the >> main/default package named zulu.ijs, but that you include your other >> scripts in the same addon. Then (load 'format/zulu') will work and >> load the script most users will need, but (load 'format/zulu/lite') >> and (load 'format/zulu/bare') will work too if the user needs them. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
