I am thinking of a tool that would really be helpful, and I hope someone
will write it. It would be called the Noun Explorer.
It would receive a noun, of any type, shape, boxing, etc., and it would
display the noun, with enough selectors and clicks and what-all to allow
the user to understand the noun. It could also allow some level of
search, possibly editing, and possibly allow sentences to be run against
parts of the noun. This can be a pain with heavily boxed nouns.
I would use such a tool in dissect. Currently I launch a grid to show
large nouns, but grid is really designed for flat arrays and doesn't
display boxes well. I have thought of improving the display in grid,
but doing a first-class job would require more - at least supporting
grids nested in grids, not a bad idea but not something I want to take
on right now.
If anyone wants to do a service to J and write the Noun Explorer, I'll
be your first tester.
Henry Rich
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