> Behalf Of Chris Burke > David Vincent-Jones wrote: > > 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. > > I don't think this change is so bad - how often do you really want to > define a global named "y"? This is unlikely in production code. I have A few of us always depend on definitions of a b c, ... ,z to generate production code (happily, the generated production code itself does not have any names).
> typically made such assignments only when debugging definitions. I agree > there is now an inconvenience in not being able to do so, but I regard > this as minor. > > If you look at the scripts, you will notice that x, y etc are still > assigned in definitions, e.g. search the scripts for: 'x y w h'=. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
