f_sdf_asdf_ =: 2
f_sdf_asdf_
2
its true that copath errors out.
A problem with allowing nested locale syntax such as the above is that many
utilities would need to be rewritten as they presume(d) it is illegal.
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From: Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com>
To: programm...@jsoftware.com
Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2017 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] locales with adverbs and conjunctions?
I don't think locale names can contain underscores:
cocurrent 'a_b'
|ill-formed name: a_b
| cocurrent'a_b'
If you are finding some place that accepts underscore in locale name,
please report it as a bug.
Even if they were allowed, how would you use them?
a_b =: 6
a_b_base_
6
No way to refer to locale b_base .
Henry Rich
On 4/8/2017 11:50 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
> 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,
>>
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