Maybe I should be doing this in a different forum? It's hard to anticipate if or where conversation will go.
Anyways, http://www.johndcook.com/symbols/2014/02/apl/ reminded me to think about the tradeoffs involved in J's design: thru=: [ + 1 i.@+ -~ 10 thru 20 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 u: 16b2336 thru 16b237a ⌶⌷⌸⌹⌺⌻⌼⌽⌾⌿⍀⍁⍂⍃⍄⍅⍆⍇⍈⍉⍊⍋⍌⍍⍎⍏⍐⍑⍒⍓⍔⍕⍖⍗⍘⍙⍚⍛⍜⍝⍞⍟⍠⍡⍢⍣⍤⍥⍦⍧⍨⍩⍪⍫⍬⍭⍮⍯⍰⍱⍲⍳⍴⍵⍶⍷⍸⍹⍺ ASCII is horribly ugly, the world still has not caught up to APL's character set. Sometimes, retro is the right choice. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
