I hope you can make this kind of change uniform, so that if I were debugging or
tracing, etc., I saw my program in the same character set that I used to write
my program. Otherwise I can't use the powerful parallel processor that is my
vision system to match things up.
... peter
On 04/04/13 12:44, Greg Borota wrote:
What I have in mind is just a display thing. Say you Select All and
Copy/Paste the content of the editor window, you still get ASCII chars only.
E.g: In GTK Term whenever you enter y as the verb argument it changes color
and becomes italic (at least under Windows). What if you were to display
the omega character instead? But behind the scenes you still hold y ASCII
char indeed. Maybe those who already worked on GTK editor could add their
feedback.
And this could be an optional setting which one could turn on and off as
wanted. Just a display setting.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:38 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.
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