My update went smoothly on j902 (and the shortcuts even worked now that I have
straightened out my previous fuzzy thinking!)
JVERSION
Engine: j902/j64avx2/darwin
Beta-i: commercial/2020-10-20T10:35:52
Library: 9.02.06
Qt IDE: 1.8.7/5.12.7(5.12.7)
Platform: Darwin 64
Installer: J902 install
InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j902
Contact: www.jsoftware.com
Cheers, bob
> On Oct 20, 2020, at 09:40, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> possibly as a result of clicking updateje command prior to running updatejqt
> command, I know get a dll error when trying to start jqt or any of the
> update commands. updatejqt is the process that started the dll errors though
> it appeared to complete successfully the first time.
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> On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 12:09:18 p.m. EDT, Eric Iverson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> DirectDefinition is a significant new feature in J902-beta-i.
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> DD is a new way to define verbs/adverbs/conjunctions that we think is a
> worthwhile improvement over n : ....
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> f=: {{x+y}} NB. f=: 4 : 'x+y'
> 2 f 3
> 5
> 2{{x+y}}3 NB. 2(4 : 'x+y')3
> 5
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> The power of DD is clearer with multiple lines and nested definitions.
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> For details, see:
> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/DirectDefinition
>
> One possibly controversial decision was to use {{ and }} as they don't
> follow J word rules. The importance of DD and the better readability over
> alternatives such as (. and ). weighed in that difficult decision.
>
> Henry Rich wrote the specs for DD and did the implementation. It is now up
> to all of us to shake it out and look for improvements.
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> ***
> J902-beta-i available for windows/macos/linux.
>
> If you already run 902-beta, then upgrade is easy:
> load'pacman'
> 'upgrade'jpkg'jengine'
>
> A lot of changes have accumulated in 902 and now is a good time to update
> the base library and all addons.
>
> If you have not started 902 beta cycle, now is the time:
> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J902
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