A couple of points: - earlier 1!: 2!: had to be extended to support byte-for-byte non-converting IO which was necessary for JHP
- still missing: streamed IO and related ReadLine() for files and console (and possibly sockets) Hopefully, the new approach will address this more comprehensively. > From: Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> > > This sounds good - and if those of us who wrote our own 1!: 2!: > scripts 20 years ago (and never require 'files") are able to easily > retrofit them into the cd scheme, then I'm all for making the changes > being proposed. Sounds like exciting new possibilities. > > At 11:17 -0400 2009/10/22, Eric Iverson wrote: > >The current jconsole has compiled C code that does > >fgets/fputs/readline/isatty and etc. This could stay this way as it seems to > >work and isn't a source of problems. > > > >But with the new JFE it would be possible to implement all that in J with cd > >calls. That would mean that jconsole would become a dead simple binary that > >had no host dependent code or any calls to host services. jconsole would > >become je and would just load the JE shared library and with a suitable > >starting script would provide a console front end as defined by a J > >programmer. > > > > > >On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:33 AM, bill lam wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Raul Miller wrote: > >> > I think that your stdio jfe will be useful for several reasons: > >> > >> I'm not quite understand what will the difference between stdio jfe > >> and current jconsole. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
