On 4/6/06, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it may not merely be a joke. I'm not a fan of APL ideograph, but if J > can allow names of nouns,verbs,... be unicode so that it becomes possible to > use > Chinese or Greek as varaible names. Then it is easier for programmers with > difficulty in English. It is already possible to use Chinese as field names in > Foxbase and MS Access if I remember correctly. > In English it is natually to write > c^2 = a^2 + b^2 > But I guess Chinese mathematician may prefer > 弦^2 = 勾^2 + 股^2 > > With UTF8 already supported in J601, I think this is possible.
I second this. This will be valuable to the people whose main alphabet isn't Roman. For example, java's source code and all identifiers(class names, method names, variable names, and etc) are written in UTF-8, using all the character sets along. It has been a great help(cognitively and for documentation). > > Kym Farnik wrote: > > This was absolutely intendend as a 1 April item :-) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
