Alex, I think I would point them towards first the 'Locales" lab and then the "Object Oriented Programming" lab. I think that these two labs would give object oriented people lots of information about how J can be used as an object oriented language.
Cheers, bob On 2012-12-03, at 11:29 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos wrote: > Thanks Marshall and Raul, and yes, of course the question assumed that > there /was/ a need for an object. > > My guess is you'd get that asked a lot if people were arriving at J from OO > languages, I'd hate to be the one making the case that you don't always > need objects, even when I agree with that statement. > > On 3 December 2012 19:21, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are several ways of translating that javascript code into J, I >> would have to know something about the larger context to know which of >> them I would pick. >> >> That said, one of the simplest would be: >> >> do_something 'bee' >> do_something 'see' >> >> Another variation would be: >> >> b_a_=: 'bee' >> s_a_=: 'see' >> do_something@do_a_&> nl_a_ 0 >> >> But obviously one of my questions would be: why do we even have an >> object here, and does a different arrangement make sense? >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Alex Giannakopoulos >> <aeg...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >>> On 3 December 2012 15:59, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> That said, when I want to translate J into a language other people >>>> understand, Javascript is usually my first choice. >>>> >>> >>> Why does that not surprise me? :-) >>> >>> >>> Incidentally, and if you have nothing better to do, how would you code >> this >>> Javascript into J? >>> a = new Object(); >>> a.b = "bee"; >>> a.c = "see"; >>> for (var prop in a) >>> do_something(a[prop]) ; >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
