Do we need to start making plans to get rid of the sky?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> The internal encoding is limited to 256.  If we ever get close to that we
> can easily extend it, whence the sky is the limit.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does this imply that J is limited to ~128 primitives? Estimating quickly,
>> we're pretty close to that limit already.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.
>>
>> > On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > They are special internally so that each verb/adverb/conjunction can be
>> > encoded by a single byte.  It is a bug that the encoding is visible to
>> the
>> > user.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Why is the top half of a. special?  I would think that all the
>> documented
>> >> words J cares about are in the lower half.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Convert 232 to hex and start looking for that.
>> >>>
>> >>> It'd be a really bad idea to depend on those encodings as that is
>> >> internal
>> >>> and may change without notice.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The top half of a. is special when executing a sentence. Codes are
>> >>> assigned
>> >>>> to those bytes. I looked for the source but haven't found it yet.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Oct 14, 2013 8:50 AM, "Devon McCormick" <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> I have no expectation of the output.  I only found it because I was
>> >>>>> checking all character combinations in a "try...catch" phrase to
>> >>>> determine
>> >>>>> which ones don't give an error.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I did try it in J6 and it behaves the same way.  I don't know if I
>> >>> have a
>> >>>>> copy of J5 anywhere.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> It's not important - it's just something that passes my simple test
>> >> yet
>> >>>> is
>> >>>>> not really a known J word.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:47 PM, bill lam <[email protected]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> The string is invalid as utf8, what would you expect the output
>> >>>>>> should be?  Not sure how it will run under J504.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Вс, 13 окт 2013, Devon McCormick писал(а):
>> >>>>>>> While experimenting with executing randomly-generated snippets of
>> >>> J,
>> >>>> I
>> >>>>>> ran
>> >>>>>>> across this:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>   (232{a.),'3'
>> >>>>>>> Φ3
>> >>>>>>>   ".(232{a.),'3'
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>   $".(232{a.),'3'
>> >>>>>>> 0
>> >>>>>>>   {.".(232{a.),'3'
>> >>>>>>> 0
>> >>>>>>>   '1 2 3',(232{a.),'3 4 5'
>> >>>>>>> 1 2 3Φ3 4 5
>> >>>>>>>   ".'1 2 3',(232{a.),'3 4 5'
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> This high-bit character seems to return i.0 for any argument.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> --
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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

Reply via email to