I would rather see JSoftware's resources devoted to other areas than adding APL character support. One of these areas is documentation on using projects in J801, another is improving documentation on JQT.
J is not APL! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bill lam Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 23:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] apl character support This seems simpler. The first thing to do is build a prototype implementaton, and then we can see what are other problems out there. Пн, 24 фев 2014, Don Guinn писал(а): > A middle ground might be to allow for some Unicode (UTF-8) to be > considered letters like a-z,A-Z. Then one could name APL iota to > something like i. . In addition, it would allow non-English languages > not be restricted to ASCII characters for names. Greek letters in > mathematics could be used as names making statements look a little > more like traditional mathematics. It would be simpler to allow all > Unicode characters be considered letters, but that might lend to other > problems. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
