The devil is always in the details. I am generally in favor of replacing native foreigns with cd calls but the potential removal of the 1!: and 2! families caught my eye. If this step is taken please provide clear scripts on the various platforms illustrating how these verbs can be replaced with equivalent cd calls. I am particularily concerned about losing the component file facility in jfiles that sets on top of the indexed read 1!: calls. The jfiles system is very useful, performs well, and cannot be easily replaced with mapped files or streams.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Oleg Kobchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > There is now a page on J Wiki to discuss JFE for J701. > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Beta/Front%20End > > It is fairly free-form, and any ideas are welcome. > > > > > > From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[email protected]> > > > > Thank you for making that available. It is a really interesting read. > > > > I really like the decision to retain a separate method for defining a GUI > and > > event handling for portability across JFEs. I'm also really looking > forward to > > investigating the jbserver! > > > > Will the mechanism for implementing x-platform support for things like > 1!:x and > > 2!:x be similar to the way say the media/platimg addon is organised? > i.e. a > > generic script containing the common interface that loads the appropriate > > platform-specific script defining low level verbs that do the cd calls. > > > > > From: Chris Burke > > > > > > Background info on IDE changes planned for J7 is at: > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/jfe.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
