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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