On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Don Watson wrote:
>     Unfortunately I am not an experienced J programmer, likely to quickly 
> produce a simulation. I am new to J, but impressed with the advantages of an 
> ASCII keyboard. I only remember how quickly I learned APL 40 years ago; 
> although J can express harder things much better, I perceive it harder to 
> express simple things in J.

I think that it is possible to use regex or J or APL to translate .
and : inflections to composite characters that you purposed.  However
I also think that J developers will not consider that to be
cost-benefit to implement that just for attracting APLers.
Nevertheless you are welcomed to implement it by yourself and
contribute back to J community.

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