For users of the last updates (1.17 and 1.18) I'm particularly interested
in comments on the new, simpler help scheme. The previous multiple button
scheme was becoming awkward and was a nuisance for adding new stuff. The
new scheme is more command line oriented and will be much easier to extend
There is a little problem with wide characters and boxing.
diceFaces =: 4 u: 16b2680 + i. 6
diceFaces
⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅
0 diceFaces
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|⚀|⚁|⚂|⚃|⚄|⚅|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
The top and bottmm row seen to think there are more chars. Probably some
kind of utf8 thing.
To be fair,
This is a known problem. It has haunted us for years. We love our unicode
and we love our boxes but they are not completely happy.
The long standing proposal is that someone model the desired behavior in J
and then we'll look at incorpporating it in the primitive format.
A short while ago there
