It is a problem or "persistent irritant" only if you use x y etc. as _global names_ from within explicit definition. That is not a very good practice regardless of what the interpreter does, in my opinion.
And no, I have not seen any good reason to withdraw the change. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Vincent-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Beta forum'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:39 PM Subject: RE: [Jbeta] x and y variables Is it really too late to sway minds away from the "persistent irritant" ? David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Patrick Harrington Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:22 PM To: Beta forum Subject: RE: [Jbeta] x and y variables Amen! I think the replacement of x. by x, etc. is an idea "too clever by half". It's only broken some of my code in minor ways but will be a persistent irritant. x,y,z,u,v,w are the first variable names I tend to use & now you have to think twice before using them. Patrick On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > Correct Oleg; > > There are cleaver ways to avoid the problem .. but remember that x and > y are probably the most common of all mathematical variable names that > are now being boxed into a special significance. > > The names x., y. et all were special and looked special; fine but > eliminating any part of the a through Z series as regular nouns I > believe to be unfortunate. > > David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
