Does anyone have an idea for something related to Bastille Day for J? This happens to be the date of NYCJUG next week.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:42 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via General < [email protected]> wrote: > v is definitely prettier than lr. I'd be concerned about the processing > time for a large array. > > A useful enhancement to J would be that 1!:2 could be set to a customized > verb (that defaults to current ":). The J environment would call that > custom verb (say called write_z_ instead of 1!:2) > > > finding a consistent way to represent the blend between literal and > unicode > > One of the things that struck me in your first video is that your > "outlined" numbers exist as unicode glyphs in mainstream fonts, and an > alternative to graphics would be reglyphing some numeric types (though not > touching strings) > > The current implementation of 1!:2/": returns utf8 (type 2= string) for > things. Though this is really a huge power of jhs, and your hook/hack > method is a neat way of being able to produce html output in the console > that could even be a clickable interactive interface to executing more > functions. > > html > unicode in display power. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: robert therriault <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] NYCJUG Tuesday, 7/14 18:30, Heartland basement, > 34th Street & Fifth Avenue, NYC > > Thanks Pasal, > > The "enhanced display mode" I did by making some alterations to > input_jhs_, essentially I just prepended 'visual ' to each log input and > then processed it. I was not comfortable creating those side effects for > users so I went with just requiring the 'v' prefix. > > The subtle distinction between lr and v is that lr reveals the way that > the result could be created and v interprets the result visually. If you > are experienced in J this might be the same thing, but I think that v gives > an easier way of spotting results that you might not have expected i.e. > list instead of atom, or literal instead of integer. > > Thanks for the feedback and I especially interested in the explorations > that you have made into unicode, since finding a consistent way to > represent the blend between literal and unicode is one of the things that I > am currently contemplating. > > Cheers, bob > > On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:40 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via General < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Looks really good, Bob. > > > > The boxing is especially impressive. Something you did in one of the > videos, that I could not spot in the script file is "enhanced display > mode" where everything that prints to console is "visualized" (very > curious in how that's even possible). > > > > While a workable alternative to using your system comes from defining > and using > > > > lr =: 3 : '5!:5 < ''y''' > > > > you will use v or lr only when things are going wrong, and the enhanced > display is really nice to automatically hook into the console display > without modifying your code at all. > > > > A classic example, you might have included in your videos: > > > > let's get the 2nd of 2 elements in a pair (mistake) > > > > }. 1 22 NB. that looks right > > > > 1 2 ,. 3 + }. 1 2 NB. adding 3 would have looked right, but making 2 > pairs fails > > |length error > > > > 1 2 ,. 3 + {: 1 2 > > 1 5 > > 2 5 > > > > > > the automatic mode is really useful for that interactive building of > expressions where you build it one verb at a time to see intermediate > results, but don't see the problem until a later operation. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: robert therriault <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: > > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 11:02 AM > > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] NYCJUG Tuesday, 7/14 18:30, Heartland basement, > 34th Street & Fifth Avenue, NYC > > > > Devon, > > > > I'm sure that there will be lots of things to discuss between Joe > Bogner's MicroJ and Henry Rich's dissect, but I would appreciate any > feedback the group has on the enhanced display that I recently put up on > the jwiki. > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/BobTherriault/Enhanced%20J%20Display > > > > Cheers, bob > > > > On Jul 9, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The regularly-scheduled meeting will be held at the same bat-time, the > same > >> bat-location, as it usually is: the Heartland Brewery, 34th and Fifth, > NYC. > >> > >> Hope to see some new faces! > >> > >> Devon > >> > >> -- > >> Devon McCormick, CFA > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
