Hm, I'll have to fix that before the students find out...
Henry Rich
On 8/7/2014 4:34 PM, Dan Bron wrote:
Heh, try dissect 'dissect ''i.10'' '
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Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Announcement: Graphical sentence debugger for J
From: Henry Rich <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:26:02 -0400
To: [email protected]
dissect is not yet integrated into the IDE (because I just released it
yesterday and haven't talked to Chris about it). It has a Wiki page and
will no doubt get mentioned more in the docs, if it is any good.
Henry Rich
On 8/7/2014 11:38 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
Apparently my question and its purpose was misunderstood. I was not asking what
the load statement should be, since as I indicated I was able to find
dissect.ijs by using an OS X search.
Rather, my question was how to find dissect from within the running J system,
e.g., from jqt.
And the purpose was to suggest that this is just the sort of lack of
documentation that makes J unnecessarily hard to use -- except perhaps for the
insiders who develop it.
Moreover, how is it recommended that one learns about the existence of
"dissect" from within the J system (i.e., not having to rely upon the mailing
list)?
On 6 Aug 2014 14:06:22 -0700, "'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming"
<[email protected]> wrote:
load 'debug/dissect'
will work from console and files. ?I think similar statements work for all
items under /addons
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:22:01 PM
Subject: [Jprogramming] Announcement: Graphical sentence debugger for J
Now just how do you recommend that one determine what file to load in order to
have access to dissect?
In jqt, unfortunately, the dialog one gets from menu selection Edit > Find in
Files does not allow the choice of Addons, just Demos, Projects, and User.
And there seems to be no reasonable way to do a search for 'dissect' when one
uses the built-in Help menu.
And the jwiki page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect doesn't
tell how to load it, either.
Of course I can use (under OS X) the Terminal command "mdfind -name
dissect.ijs", but why does it have to be so hard to accomplish such a basic and
essential thing from within J (without shelling out)??
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:49:36 -0400, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
The /Dissect/ addon lets you probe a J sentence, even one that contains
complex tacit forms.? It has a colorful but informative display using
gl2 graphics.? It is described at
www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect
I think it could answer a lot of the language questions posed here.
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Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
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University of Massachusetts
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