The kind-of-great thing is that several of the APL characters in your post were legible - full support for the APL character set in the wide world is imminent - just like it's been for the past 30 years.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed some apl on rosettacode: > > http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Luhn_test_of_credit_card_numbers#APL > > r←LuhnTest digits;even;odd;SumEven > (odd even)←↓⍉⍎¨{(n,2)⍴(⍵,'0')↑⍨2×n←⌈(⍴⍵)÷2}⌽digits > SumEven←{+/+/¨⍎¨¨⍕¨2×⍵} > r←'0'=⊃¯1↑⍕(+/odd)+(SumEven even) > > Unfortunately, when I tried copy and paste into notepad (and into some > other contexts), the characters came out wrong. > > Also, when I tried searching for a symbol I did not recognize, > google gave me: > > Your search - ⍨ - did not match any documents. > > Which, to be fair, is the same thing I get when I try searching > for +. (From context i imagine its the same thing that J > represents using ~). > > Anyways, I have hope that APL characters may some day be > supported robustly... > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
