I am uncomfortable using J's ~ mechanism to find the user's home directory, since J makes a point of not abstracting the OS concept of a user home directory.
That said: jpath '~' gives my my home directory on a mac (but not on windows) and jpath '~user' gives me a directory name within my home directory on both mac and windows. FYI, -- Raul On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure this is really such a good idea. J is its own language and > mapping some J symbols to APL ones could be misleading. Also, as much as I > like the look of APL, I'm happy not to deal with the continuing hiccups > caused by the character set. > > At last year's APL Moot, I showed my fellow mooters that I could cut and > paste Chinese characters into an emacs session with no apparent problem but > some of the APL characters from a website did not come over cleanly. > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think it might be a quicker path to use ASCII behind the scenes still but >> have some editor/term software (Visual Studio in this case) display words >> of interest as APL symbols. Like in MS Word where you type (c) and it's >> automatically displayed as Copyright Symbol ©. >> >> This could even be an Options settings where one could turn it on and off. >> I think this is doable with reasonable effort with Visual Studio, but I am >> thinking the idea could be used with Qt or GKT also. Unless I am missing >> something which I might see only after starting the actual implementation >> :-) >> >> I am very new to APL land, but I really liked the APL symbols. When I first >> started with computers I was puzzled why math symbols were not used by C (C >> was my first higher level language after Assembly)... >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, PMA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > What a wonderful idea! I wish I had >> > the competence & time to pursue it. >> > >> > Pete >> > >> > >> > J. Patrick Harrington wrote: >> > >> >> ... My dream would be to have J expressible in APL-like >> >> >> >> characters (there isn't a one-to-one correspondance, though most symbols >> >> could be carried over). Then J could have two >> >> forms, like hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian: ASCII J for use >> >> in emails & everywhere, and APL-like J for use on your main >> >> machine: more compact and beautiful to look at. I really hope >> >> that such a project gets under way. >> >> >> > >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm >> <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
