Someone could edit the J interpreter such that when you type a combination of characters, it will replace them with a better, one character alternative. The question is if people want this to be only visual or actually change what you've typed in.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
