just realized that locale names are allowed to have inner underscores. so the name collision problem is solved by sublocale_tara_?
and then the filtered "toplevel" locales could simply be those without underscore if the convention is followed. The sublocales of tara are the '_tara' +./@:E. locales by convention. good enough? ________________________________ From: Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> To: programm...@jsoftware.com Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2017 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] locales with adverbs and conjunctions? Could nesting locales be achieved by a convention that says that nested locales have names like "outer___inner" where I am using 3 underscores ___ to represent some unique string? The name-collision problem would then be solved except at the highest level. I don't see how the highest level can be solved without a coordinating authority. Boulder would still have to back off from biff. What is achieved besides reduction in collision potential? A query for locale names could suppress nested locales by default. Currently, when I list the locales, I get a zillion that start with 'dissect'. It would be nice to see just the top-level locale. Henry Rich On 4/8/2017 6:43 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > So, for example, instead of an addon like tara requiring 18 locales, > it would occupy one locale which contained the others it needs. > > So, for example, if the Boulder international film festival at some > point has a J programmer that releases some little addon of relevance > to them, we are less likely to need to yell at them that the locale > 'biff' is already taken. > > Not a pressing need at the moment, (and maybe never) but I like to > plan ahead (though perhaps J will never be popular enough for this to > be an issue?). > > Thanks, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
