> From: Alan K. Stebbens > Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:26 > > Don, Ric, Skip, Fraser, Raul, et. al., > > If I had to toss out an idea (which has probably been done before), > here's one for the IDE: a "verbose transcription" mode? > > Perhaps having a display mode in the J IDE which presents symbolic > verbs using spelled-out names (with spacing of course) might help? If > this "verbose mode" existed in the IDE, then a J learner could open > any J script, and upon rendering in "verbose transcript" mode and > easily decipher the meanings. Of course, with the correct library of > operator name definitions, the J learner could also write complex J > sentences and scripts using either words or symbols. When saving to a > file, the "verbose transcription" mode would translate (where > possible) the symbolic names into their normal J symbolic equivalents.
Fraser Jackson used the primitives script in one of his examples in the Language S thread. <http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2009-April/001643.html>. He showed that it was possible to use names from the script in combination with normal J symbols. The script contains quite a bit of documentation, to view it type the following in a J session: open 'primitives' The script describes how to translate the named definitions in the script to J symbols (primitives). Going back the other way (from primitives to names) will be more difficult because often the correct name to use for a symbol (the monadic or dyadic one) will depend on the arguments provided when the sentence is run. Nevertheless the script mentions the wiki page <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Primitives to Mnemonics> that attempts to do just that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
