Tracy -- thank you for taking the trouble to wrestle with problems
like this. It wasn't in my mind to ask this of the J community.
Primarily I shall use my record of Chat Forum traffic as a checklist
when revising the printed book. This is where Chris Burke directed the
APWJ business. I
, incoming source material often lacks clear delineation of the
in-line J code -- or if present it can't be trusted. It's a
compounding factor that the back-tick used by Moinmoin to delineate
in-line J is also a valid J character.
Ian Clark
2009/5/30 Björn Helgason gos...@gmail.com:
=.
It could
/article/SB123992364819927171.html
The memory of that article jumped out of the remarks below...
- joey
At 20:41 +0100 2009/05/30, Ian Clark wrote:
Watching this with interest, due to my typesetting task of At Play
With J Edn 2. (See JChat).
It's the considered opinion of BAA Vector
:
I am very surprised by this. Why should in-line J
be any harder than in-line APL, since the J alphabet
(7-bit ASCII) is a subset of ⎕av ? (At least the Dyalog ⎕av.)
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:42
Subject: Re
IME. That counts for
a lot in my game. So avoiding MSWord entirely is for people with
clean earth to till.
Ian
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Raul Miller rauldmil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
wrote:
However the typesetter's job
Do tell us, Eugene :)
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Eugene McDonnellee...@mac.com wrote:
Who was the man A who said about man B that He says without going
what goes without saying. (My wife knew the answer.)
Eugene McDonnell
use as
a work-variable to hold the second element of yc. This can be overcome
by adhering rigidly to the earlier convention of using S X T for the
first 3 elements of yc instead of s x t --which the article lapses
into doing. But that is (I think) an independent issue.
Ian Clark
have to change the first cnd verb to:
cnd =: 3 : 'normalprob 0, 1,__,y'0
Hallo Ian Clark, je schreef op 30-06-09 07:54:
To follow this you'll need to refer to the page:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play193
I'm testing the code for Edn 2 of APWJ, and it doesn't give
),d2 yc
0.3724829 0.317292
So leave cnd as it is and change BlackScholes:
BlackScholes=: 4 : 0
'S X T r v' =. y
d1=. ((ln S%X)+(r+-:*:v)*T)%(v * sqrt T)
d2=. d1 - v * sqrt T
(S, X * exp-r*T) (-/ . * cnd0 )(-^:x) d1, d2
)
Hallo Ian Clark, je schreef op 30-06-09 18:45:
Neat
Thanks, Devon.
utf-8 strikes again! And that was supposed to be a dumb single-quote!
Watch out, there may be more of those. Moving a straighforward TXT
file from Win2000 to the Mac is a minefield nowadays.
Ian
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Devon McCormickdevon...@gmail.com wrote:
I changed
wrote:
From: Ian Clark
I've tried it with without the tilde, as the original paper had it,
and both load the required verb. But since the tilde is standard
nowadays, I've put it in.
With the tilde is safer. It will work without the tilde if the current
working directory (1!:43'') is the j602
In http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play211/
can anyone tell me the sixth number? -- left at the bottom as an
exercise for the reader.
In the circumstances, I think the answer ought to be provided as a
footnote in Edn 2 of the book.
Ian Clark
I'd thought of that. But an appendix with one entry might look a bit silly.
Ian
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Skip Caves...@caveconsulting.com wrote:
All puzzle answers should be in an appendix at the end of the book,
organized by chapter.
Skip
Ian Clark wrote:
Sad, I know, from
Sorry... it's Gene's book.
And I've just finished the typesetting. Just need to complete the
final testing. Expect Edn 2 real-soon-now.
Ian
On 7/14/09, Devon McCormick devon...@gmail.com wrote:
So come up with more puzzles...
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Ian Clark earthspo
Years ago I recall Burroughs staff telling me that the Algol compiler
was itself implemented definitively in Algol -- not just as a
research tool but operationally, to implement all future releases.
On my protesting what a crazy thing to do, they assured me it wasn't
as chicken-and-egg as it
mean)!
Would a J interpreter implemented in J outperform the original? (I doubt it,
but)
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:33:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming
* !0 D:1 ])^:_ .170^:(-:+)^.y' :.!
If you are serious about implementing J you should
read Ken's APL87 paper, APL87:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/apl87.htm
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 17:15
Subject: Re
At some point you will have to issue machine instructions of some
sort. Otherwise, you will still be using the machine instructions
generated in the current C implementation of J.
Correction: your new interpreter will need to execute machine code
somewhere, even if it's inherited from the
:1 ])^:_ .170^:(-:+)^.y'
for the inverse of ! .
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 19:03
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Reimplementing J
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
If you are serious about implementing
a mathematician is that I have a PhD in the
subject. Gene in his book APWJ claims he _isn't_ a mathematician. I
must say he's a better one than I am! (There's something Wizard-
of-Oz about that.)
http://keiapl.org/anec/#Dickey
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo
%20Tries%20To%20Read%20J
Ian
On 7/24/09, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
minus/ . times 3 3$'abcdefghi' NB. determinant
+-+
|((a*((e*i)-(h*f)))-((d*((b*i)-(h*c)))-(g*((b*f)-(e*c
Thanks,Brian. I hadn't realised Dan had got so far with my proposal. :-)
...and I've also made friends with the wiki search facility.
Does Dan's list have any official standing? I ask because on the IAPL
project we found that one of its sweetest uses was as a reference
model, since it was
Can I play too? I've been meaning to do this for years, but I never got up
the initiative. If you start the project I'm happy
Delighted to have a co-worker (=player). Will keep you up-to-date.
Thanks for the leads.
Itching to get started. Must get APWJ Edn 2 tested released first,
though.
since I have not compiled for decades a
program written in a familiar programming language.
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:05:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming
Thanks, Dan. Noted bookmarked. Ian
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Dan Bronj...@bron.us wrote:
Jose wrote:
You might also be interested in an old thread
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2001-November/008262.html
The Phrases document (Phr) in J Help contains a lot of useful
definitions which are graced by their own names, eg by, over,
tab. But Phr doesn't appear to have an Index or an easy way of
searching it.
Have these named words been collected into a list or script somewhere?
If not, how should I go
, Ricr.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nz wrote:
From: Ian Clark
The Phrases document (Phr) in J Help contains a lot of useful
definitions which are graced by their own names, eg by, over,
tab. But Phr doesn't appear to have an Index or an easy way of
searching it.
Have these named words been collected
there.
Ian Clark
for Vector Books.
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a bit like Menu
Insert Symbol... in MSWord? If we have a Wiki page for it, it
would be a courtesy to have a footnote directing readers there.
Ian Clark
for Vector Books.
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Thanks, Bill. That's just what I was looking for.
Ian
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:53 AM, bill lambbill@gmail.com wrote:
or just use base 16 number 16b2663 ? However J does not accept upper
case hex digits.
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Ian Clark wrote:
Thanks, Bill.
...I've just recalled Gilles
Yes, it's a long way from (a.) ;-)
Question from my son, who teaches English as a foreign language: how
do you type IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) into Twitter or
Facebook?
He thinks it would be too tedious to copy/paste from a program that
lets you compose a unicode string.
Microsoft
I've been watching this thread with a certain amount of awe.
Personally I would like to see an accurate J replication of the
DATES.w3 package shipped with APL+Win, of which I am a heavy user.
It's on my list to do the conversion myself, but I'd be indebted to
anyone else doing it first (plus
Not sure Easter is simply anything, Devon, though that's basically it...
The most thorough account of the problem I know is Ray Cannon's
readable entertaining paper:
http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v103/cannon103_67.htm
Ian
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Devon McCormick devon...@gmail.com
recent evolutions of dSpell dTime.
Ric
From: Ian Clark
I've been watching this thread with a certain amount of awe.
Personally I would like to see an accurate J replication of the
DATES.w3 package shipped with APL+Win, of which I am a heavy user.
It's on my list to do the conversion myself
Quickie...
A simple task that eludes me:
Where am I supposed to find an up-to-date table of z locale contents
with a single line statement of what each word does?
Ian
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For information about J forums see
-to-date. And anyway I can't find it
again.
(And of course there's a similar question in my mind regarding the
Library scripts.)
Ian
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Raul Miller rauldmil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Where am I
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/OlegKobchenko/Namedoc;
from will display the comments for a word in the session. (Works with
jconsole too).
From: Ian Clark
Right... I could do the names bit. I just want to direct readers to
elementary documentation on each word.
Most of them lack
Thanks, Oleg. Will have to study this carefully. Busy with other
things right now. /Ian
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Oleg Kobchenko oleg...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
The Phrases document (Phr) in J Help contains a lot of useful
definitions which
Thanks for opening this up to the list, Oleg.
...this plus another ten or so puzzles, about which I'll get back to
individual volunteers over the next couple of weeks in the first
instance, then open up to the list.
Status of APWJ Edn 2: The testing of the ms is done: URLs checked out,
Thank you, David, for your reconstruction of verb BLT. It works fine
and gives the expected results. I have inserted it in
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play171 after the first
mention of BLT.
I will also include you in the list of those acknowledged in the
production of APWJ Edn 2.
with the other verb definitions in the article, I'd
suggest using 13 : '' rather than 3 : 0 to define David's BLT
i.e.
BLT=: 13 : '~. bl1 (y#y)#: i.y^y'
From: Ian Clark
Thank you, David, for your reconstruction of verb BLT. It works fine
and gives the expected results. I have inserted
Right, Brian... occurred to me after I sent it. My remarks should have
referred to single versus multi line definition, which has nothing to
do with 3 vs 13. Put it down to overwork distraction.
Ian
On 10/24/09, Brian Schott schott.br...@gmail.com wrote:
Ian,
I am a little confused by your
, in successive pairs of
items, all possible choices of 2 items from n, with no duplications.
Problem 2: How many of the !n permutations of even order n are
solutions to problem 1?
+
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2
in a separate thread.
+
In: Ch 10 Years Digits
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play124 [see end-of-page]
There is a solution to 91 which is shorter than this, by the way.
+
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2
the student numbers of the students
that touched both locker 24 and locker 36?
F. Which students touched both locker 100 and 120? What do you
notice about their student numbers?
+
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2
The first and second overlap, as do the third and fourth.
I'll give two hints, the second vacuous:
Hint 1: Primarily, the sixth number has three doublets and overlaps the fifth.
Hint 2: Alternately, something for nothing.
+
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:56
Subject: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [1 of 4]
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left
-
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:56
Subject: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4]
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left as
exercises for
the reader. In Edn 2
.
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 15:00
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4]
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Any advances on that?
Ian
PS: selected contributors (my choice
solution (sorry,
Ewart).
We really, really are on the last lap with APWJ Edn 2, and I want it
out in time for Christmas.
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2.
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AS 26.2.16 means? It may be a
well-understood reference to statisticians, but it needs an
explanatory footnote in APWJ Edn 2.
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2.
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Thanks, Dan and Devon.
I'm adding a proper reference (to the webpage).
Ian
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Devon McCormick devon...@gmail.com wrote:
Abramowitz Stegun - see http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/intro.htm#006 .
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Ian Clark earthspo
Right, I've learned something! And I thought I was a mathematician...
I wonder how well-known AS is in Europe? My contemporaries would have
turned to Rektorys Survey of Applicable Mathematics. But I'm talking
1960s - 70s now...
Ian
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Sherlock, Ric
, the nim
sum derived at the start of the article, but although mt then runs,
it does not produce the same table as the previous definition of mt
(quite apart from needing to be run as (mt 4) not (mt 5) like the
previous one).
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2
.
Henry Rich
Ian Clark wrote:
In: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play191 (Chapter 31, J
be nimble, J be quick)
the version of mt attributed to Mike Day fails with value error: nimsum
Can anyone see what nimsum is supposed to be? It only occurs once
(outside a comment). I've tried
Thanks, Raul, that link is appealing. But since it's a preview
release I think I'd better go with Devon's link.
In view of my limited aim in annotating the existing text (for
preference), I'm going to give AS an entry in References at the end
of the chapter. There I shall add Devon's URL
I cannot find an ISBN for AS. Do I take it that because it's a govt
report it doesn't have one?
Ian
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Thanks, Raul, that link is appealing. But since it's a preview
release I think I'd better go with Devon's link
Thanks Kenneth, you succeeded with amazon.com where I failed (I must
have asked the wrong question:)
Thanks, Ric -- I should have checked that straightaway.
Ian
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Sherlock, Ric
r.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nz wrote:
From: Ian Clark
I cannot find an ISBN for AS. Do
Suppose I have an arbitrary table, eg
zz
1 2 3 4 5
2 3 1 8 10
3 1 2 12 15
4 8 12 6 2
5 10 15 2 7
what's a slick way of displaying it boxed and labelled, like this? ...
+-+-+
|s|0 1 2 3 4|
+-+-+
|0|1 2 3 4 5|
|1|2 3 1 8 10|
|2|3 1 2 12 15|
.
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 16:16
Subject: [Jprogramming] labelling a table
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Suppose I have an arbitrary table, eg
zz
1 2 3 4 5
2 3 1 8 10
3 1 2 12
-
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 16:16
Subject: [Jprogramming] labelling a table
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Suppose I have an arbitrary table, eg
zz
1 2 3 4 5
2 3 1 8 10
3 1 2 12 15
4 8 12 6 2
5
with the verb ({. ; }.).
Then it avoids my reshape (2 2$...) by leveraging the property of stitch (,.)
Neat, Roger. Thanks for that potted masterclass.
Ian
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Our postings crossed, Roger. You're reading my thoughts.
Yes
:
In the printed copy (Vector 19.1) it gives
nimsum =: ~:/.#:@,0/~ NB. EEmcD
That gives the correct results from Mike Day's function.
Fraser
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
To: Programming forum programming@jsoftware.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:27
...Clarification: it's the Nim-addition table that has 0s down the
main diagonal, not the Nim-multiplication table.
I've updated http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play191 to
include all this new material: nimsum, label and References.
Ian
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Ian Clark
...@jsoftware.com wrote:
Perhaps system/packages/misc/border.ijs does what you want.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.comwrote:
And label1 grabs a left argument for Format from... somewhere :-)
...I was wrong. Format is used monadically throughout. label1 simply
combines
Almost ready to publish APWJ Edn. Just need answers to these 2
problems, [3 of 4] and [4 of 4].
Ian
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left as exercises for
the reader. In Edn 2 we want to provide
Almost ready to publish APWJ Edn. Just need answers to these 2
problems, [3 of 4] and [4 of 4].
Ian
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left as exercises for
the reader. In Edn 2 we want to provide
as discussions were
appended. Here's the first instance of this.
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Chris Burke cbu...@jsoftware.com wrote:
Just following up on Ian's recent messages, see below.
Ian tells me the only major items outstanding for publishing the second
This comes just in time. I was about to go to press.
Ian Clark
Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Shaw, Ewart ewart.s...@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
Dear Ian,
I've put a suggested solution to the pi digits problem
on the article page; note that 10 digit sequences beginning '0'
must
Thanks for that, Dan
It would look a lot terser if you did what everyone else does: omit
comments and be sparing with blank lines and those containing only
')'. IMO the result is just as readable. I'm not saying comments
aren't appealing. What if you confined them all to one block?
Some verbs
Tried to reproduce these bugs using the latest Basic_Animation#J on my
iMac, running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
(i.e. Leopard, not Snow Leopard)
I agree about 1. Every time the timer fires, it deletes the char just
typed in the .ijx window. On the other hand a new ijs window can be
created by Cmd-N and
On my iMac, on entering:
(?5) wdquery 'myapp' ; 'my message'
if you press Esc or click the GoAway button in the window's titlebar,
this is equivalent to clicking OK, viz 0 is returned in all cases of
left arg. The same thing happens when you try to quit J itself and see
the message: Do you
. Few of us learn how to handle
even a button-press properly.
Ian Clark
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Oleg Kobchenko oleg...@yahoo.com wrote:
Here's another version. See if it works better on Mac.
Invalidated WD is considered more proper way to update UI.
NB
Can't see any stutter on my iMac. Is this just Windows being Windows?
Ian may be stuck in motel bathroom memories,
...I'm throwing in the towel. :)
...and putting another quarter in the shaky bed.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Brian Schott schott.br...@gmail.com wrote:
Oleg,
Ian may be
, then Andrew is
right. Psychology holds the key. Gerry Weinberg (in The Psychology of
Then I (for one) am very glad that our company does not sell, at least not
directly, the tacit systems that we code!
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
have my own
answer of course. But I'd like to hear others' first.
items
_1
erase'items'
1
items=: 13 : 'i. #TT'
items
3 : 'i. #TT'
TT=. i.2 3
items=: 13 : 'i. #TT'
items
0 1_
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
approach in J)
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Too right.
My aim in using a function to calculate items based on the (current)
TT was to avoid using a global variable as a cache, like this: items
=: i. #TT
It seems that:
items=: 13 : 'i. #TT
and ... thank you, Dan ... now I've taken the trouble to read your
post carefully at:
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-August/016123.html
... I believe I've just said what you did, only another way.
Ian
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Like you, Henry, I wonder what students on a course called
Engineering for Programmers got out of it. Apart from a good laugh.
For a long while the IEEE in the UK resisted a proposal to confer the
CEng (Chartered Engineer) qualification to programmers, arguing that
programmers knew d***-all about
Viktor and Dan -- thanks a bunch. That's tempted me with hosts of
forbidden ideas.
But I fear in the end that any process creating/updating TT in my base
locale will have to be asked to do the ethical thing and lay some
tracks for my engine after it has done it. Or else CAL tries to be as
I've got it to run by:
1. Correcting:
CONG=. +/ L:0 INDX=: (1, L:0 }. L:0 -. L:0 y);.1 L:0 y NB. search congestio
m
to:
CONG=. +/ L:0 INDX=: (1, L:0 }. L:0 -. L:0 y);.1 L:0 y NB. search congestion
and...
2. correcting:
TMP=. ‾. /:‾ x metropolis0 y NB. not burn_in and sort
to:
TMP=.
=. MP,-.1 e. MP=.MP
in index_zrp_sub1 directly after the else..
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.comwrote:
That's a really useful site, June!
I can think of all sorts of uses for it.
How about this: http://pastebin.com/m2b4a375c
(Excuse me, Mr Shimura
Yes Luca, a glance back at Keith Smillie's original article shows the
intention is to use Wind there -- which Eugene shortens to Wd -- and
not some new word W.
It's wrong in http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play132 too.
Most embarrassing. I wondered how it got past my rigorous testing
I have a listbox called panel. As rows of panel are selected I
want to provide details of the selection elsewhere on the form (called
topend).
Clicking a line fires the event: topend_panel_select, which I can use
to do what I need. I would like pressing key: downarrow to fire this
event too. But
the grid control.
Besides the arrow support and other key events, you get
additional columns etc as a bonus.
For an example, see
load 'gui/util/cobrowse'
Use Tab key to switch between lists and Arrow keys to
select list items.
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
I have
Trying to make sense of JHelp wd ...
I have a char vec in var: TEXT. I wish to copy it to the clipboard. I
turn to JHelp.
It points me to the wd page and I can code:
wd 'clipcopy ',TEXT
from the info on the page -- but it doesn't work.
However (*inspiration!*) ...
wd 'clipcopy *',TEXT
That
, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
AFAICS the need (...occasionally?!) for a leading star is nowhere
mentioned on the JHelp page. Should it be? How? When is a star needed
and when not?
* is documented in the first paragraph at
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user
Hahaha!
For my testing process I went through the book blindly executing every
code-block in turn. I don't know how I missed a footnote for that one.
I guess I felt I couldn't add anything to Eugene's preceding phrase:
...at the heart of it...
...So a lot has gone before. I supposed readers
Anyway, Devon has started the effort at
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary .
Spot-on.
I'd like to be in on this. And I have one clear advantage over you all
... (*preen-preen*) ... I'm a genuine Beginner! :-P
Seriously though, I'm worried that (without a human factors lab to
test it
PS: We need a better name for this project. Dictionary2, Phrases2,
Vocabulary2, etc are clunky (plus these efforts aren't really new
superceding versions, but parallel texts with different goals). I like
Henry's Wiktionary but that name is already taken by a more famous
project. I'd
Yes, Don, this is potentially most useful to me and I'd like to get it
working (again).
I tried converting all x.--x y.--y and \--/ (for the Mac) but I hit
snags, like use of (m.) So I gave up that approach, enabled (x.) and
(y.) (etc...!!!) and ran it. Then it did indeed run, but all the
the same objective, I would
catenate all the pages together into a single HTML page
(removing the prolog and epilog parts), and then just
use the Find facility of the browser on the one HTML page.
- Original Message -
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Date: Tuesday, January 19
old-hands on where my code could be improved. See
Observations and Discussion right at the bottom, for starters. I can't
believe nobody's written something like this already, only better.
Perhaps there's an item in the J menu I've overlooked...?
Ian Clark
Yes Kenneth, that's exactly what I was expecting.
Oh well... you have to write these things yourself in order to
understand what other people have done.
Never mind. All good practice.
Ian
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Lettow, Kenneth klet...@thomasnet.com wrote:
Ian Clark wrote:
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*) as is profuse commenting, typical of a language
rookie, which goes away with more confidence.
From: Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com
Yes Kenneth, that's exactly what I was expecting.
Oh well... you have to write these things yourself in order to
understand what other people have
Why do you want the extra 'reset' after closing? It will close all other
windows as well.
So *that's* what's doing it! :-)
I was blindly lifting code from some other example, I forget which.
an alternative for try-catch could be the adverse conjunction (::)
Yes, that looks much neater. (I
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Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] LoBrow: browser for locale contents
mer, 20 Jan 2010, Ian Clark skribis:
PS nobody's told me off for nilad define! ;)
That's your own coding style, I myself just use plain text like 0 : 0
or 3 : 0 because it types less and unambiguous
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ian Clark earthspo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Of course using a word like nilad to parameterise define enforces
nothing in the subsequent code, so really I'm fooling myself.
If you do not mind slightly different grammar:
niladic=: (0 :) (1 :0
; composed on a handheld device.
-Original Message-
From: Raul Miller rauldmil...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:50:10
To: Programming forumprogramming@jsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] LoBrow: browser for locale contents
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Ian Clark
I'd noticed that from SAJ.ijs.
Actually my example is a bozo one, just for illustration. Since I've
had such bad experiences of this nature, I take special care when
coding logical tests.
But I've seen some strange side-effects from writing =: for =.,
especially with y involved, that I resolve
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