J902-beta-i available for 32-bit and 64-bit raspberry pi. load'pacman' 'upgrade'jpkg'jengine'
please report any bugs in the beta forum. On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:09 AM Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > DirectDefinition is a significant new feature in J902-beta-i. > > DD is a new way to define verbs/adverbs/conjunctions that we think is a > worthwhile improvement over n : .... > > f=: {{x+y}} NB. f=: 4 : 'x+y' > 2 f 3 > 5 > 2{{x+y}}3 NB. 2(4 : 'x+y')3 > 5 > > The power of DD is clearer with multiple lines and nested definitions. > > 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. > > *** > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
