I think this incompatibility concern is overblown. The move to J6 does in fact have some big incompatibilities, in graphics and unicode. But I don't see how Jsoftware could have avoided making the changes they made: the system has to evolve. I spent a couple of weeks on the conversion, not cheerfully, but without ill will.
The change from x. to x has cost me about 10 minutes of work and saved me a few lines of code. I agree with Bill that the gain is not much compared with the cost, but I like the code better with the dots removed so I'm content. Henry Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Donovan > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] x and y variables > > As a "permanent J beginner" it seems to me that the cavalier way > in which existing systems are "broken" by new releases is possibly > one of the reasons that J has failed to make a wider impression into > the software scene. No business enterprise could possibly have > major systems written in J if it was likely that a new release of the > software would bring the walls tumbling down! > > > >From: Alain Miville de Chêne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Beta forum <[email protected]> > >To: Beta forum <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [Jbeta] x and y variables > >Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:14:24 -0400 > > > >I agree. Very unfortunate especially since we math oriented > folks readily > >use these one letter variables. We have centuries of > tradition behind x and > >y and z for example. > > > >David Vincent-Jones wrote: > >... > >>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. > >... > >------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > >For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
