Ian, Looking at your edited pages, I see nice endnotes and other references that enhance the book. I think the end result should be interesting. Makes me feel guilty about not including something similar... (although in my own editing, I only made two very minor changes - adding a missing ' and putting in @: in place of @ -- and not being able to cite what changed to make @ the wrong choice, but verifying that it does work correctly, as changed, in current j.
Browsing through other articles just now, I think a note about the last line of Play151 citing the "Feynman point" (perhaps something from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_point ) might be a nice addition - I'm not suggesting a wikipedia link, just the fact that the example was from a well regarded source. Although, I suspect Eugene's original idea was that such a thing might foster a little research on the part of the reader... In your message below, I am curious what you mean when you say, "[I] probably will never write another original APL application. J's portability between Windows, Mac and PDA alone sees to that for me." Can you explain to me what you mean by that?? - joey At 11:28 +0100 2009/05/25, Ian Clark wrote: >On that point, could somebody please eyeball the chapters of APWJ >(http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/At%20Play%20With%20J) which I've >marked as revised by myself, to check I haven't goofed? > >I'm having a lot of fun learning J -- and probably will never write >another original APL application. J's portability between Windows, Mac >and PDA alone sees to that for me. But I really ought to have learnt J >thoroughly before presuming to revise a book about its subtleties. > >However, subeditors can't be choosers -- and copydates take >precedence over all. > >Ian Clark > > >On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ian Clark ><[email protected]> wrote: >> BTW where the book has footnotes I'm inserting the same text inline >> between square brackets. Ch 2 (Play103) illustrates. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
