[Jprogramming] Emacs users using Zachary Elliott's j-mode

2020-05-18 Thread Devon McCormick
Hi - as part of starting to use Windows 10, I made the rookie mistake of also changing my version of emacs to the latest and greatest version 26.3. As a result, this line in "j-mode.el" now throws the error "Expected opening brace after \\N": (modify-syntax-entry ?\N "w 1" table) Has anyone els

Re: [Jprogramming] Is jmf missing from 9.01?

2020-05-18 Thread Devon McCormick
Never mind. I'm reinstalling lots of things because of my upgrade to Windows 10 and I had not run pacman for the new 9.01. On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:59 AM Devon McCormick wrote: > I just noticed that the jmf - memory-mapped files - addon does not seem to > be in J version 9.01 though it appear

[Jprogramming] Is jmf missing from 9.01?

2020-05-18 Thread Devon McCormick
I just noticed that the jmf - memory-mapped files - addon does not seem to be in J version 9.01 though it appears to be in 9.02. Has anyone else notice this? -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information a

Re: [Jprogramming] How to convert list of phrases to list of boxed phrases?

2020-05-18 Thread ethiejiesa via Programming
Not Skip, but let me take a crack at an explanation. I agree that NuVoc's wording makes it sound like monadic { doesn't work on unboxed lists. However... {1 2 3 ┌─┐ │1 2 3│ └─┘ {<1 2 3 ┌─┬─┬─┐ │1│2│3│ └─┴─┴─┘ So { certainly does *something* to non-bo

Re: [Jprogramming] How to convert list of phrases to list of boxed phrases?

2020-05-18 Thread HH PackRat
On 5/17/20, HH PackRat wrote: > I need to convert the following list of 5 (in reality, far more) > 11-character dates: ... > to a list of 5 boxed dates: ... Many THANK YOU's to those who responded! As usual with J, there's often more than one way to accomplish something--in this case, 5 complete