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2006/4/1, Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Kym Farnik wrote:
> > 2006-04-01 [Australian Central Time]
> >
> > Now that J601 has Unicode support could we have Unicode names (nouns
> > verbs etc.) instead of the basic ASCII limitation?
> >
> > Then you could define, ({symbolically} as some email programs do not
> > do Unicode), items like...
> >
> > {iota} =: i.
> > {rho} =: $
> > {divide} =: %
> > {epsilon} =: e.
> >
> > Etc. (we could also have the APL comment character as an equivalent of
> NB.)
> >
> > Then you could tranliterate all your old APL code into J or just write
> > J flavoured APL code.
> >
> > People would have the choice of coding with ASCII or with APL like
> > symbols. I already use "APL385 Unicode" as my font in J601.
>
> Here is a good reason for supporting Unicode - to allow those still
> using APL to move quickly and painlessly to J. Mind you, we still have
> to support the 'Ace of Spades' for assignment, perhaps in J7?
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