I have just verified Gilles Kirouac's assertion that the code of Play163 works already. I should have done so before, instead of assuming it couldn't possibly.
So this article needs no revision. Nor much (if any) discussion. But if Gilles cares to take ownership of Play163 and mark it completed, then I propose he is credited with having revised it. I have created the page: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play163 and pasted into it the contents of the existing Chapter 22 We'll Cross That Bridge When We Come To It. I've defined the preformatted J code, but not the in-line J. I tested the code by copy/pasting from the Wiki itself. I did try removing linefeeds from the one-line definition of 'bridge', which is what prompted my original remark -- the one which puzzled Gilles. The example works whether I do or not ... which amazes me. But perhaps only a J novice like me would wish to discuss the insertion of line breaks in J code -- when they are tolerated and when they are not. Some sort of line break convention will be needed in the book (2nd Edition), the reader being instructed to remove these manually and join-up lines. Ian Clark On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Gilles Kirouac <[email protected]> wrote: > At Play With J/EditingGuidelines > > The last sentence of the guidelines is not clear to me: > > === > Some papers I envisage as generating quite a bit of discussion on the forum re > how best to handle them. Eg the "cross that bridge" paper. > === > > I checked the code of Crossing the bridge. The code works as is. > The only change I could suggest is a NVV fork (1: becoming 1). > > I have not analyzed the code, but at first glance I would change > noting else. > > The text says that the algo is not optimal; should we change that? > I suppose not. > > Then what is the meaning of the guideline? > > ~ Gilles > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
