Directories are hierarchical - you can have a directory "inside" another directory.
There's no way of doing that with locales - they all exist on the same level (though of course you can have a reference to any locale inside any locale). Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't understand what you mean when you say "locals are not > hierarchical". Locales are just name spaces. Locales are implicitly > referenced through path (18!:2). The path determines how locales are > searched to resolve a name not found in the current locale. This search is > hierarchical. The locales are searched in the order specified in 18!:2. But > each locale has its own path. In this way the hierarchy of locales depends > on the current locale. In this way it is easy to implement classes in J. > But paths can be used outside of J classes in interesting ways. > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Steven Taylor <tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > the verbname__location / verbname_location_ format places more emphasis > on > > the verb or noun inside that locale (assuming a left to right cultural > > reading orientation). That appears illogical because nobody else does > > that, however it can help with readability if you can get used to it. > > > > It also helps if you can flatten out the locale 'tree' (although locales > > are not hierarchical). I mean just symantically. > > > > I found the process of re-evaluating how I initially thought namespaces > > 'should' work refreshing and overall I think locales have helped me make > > better namespace naming choices in other more verbose languages. > > > > I'd also encourage considering locales outside of a strict oo context. > > Try to stay away from state when possible. > > > > This is so obvious I am embarrassed that it took me so long to consider > > this -- there are French and english 'locales' in Canada... And I thought > > this sense of the word may have been behind J's use of it. Probably > that's > > obvious to everyone in north America ;-). > > > > If you find yourself writing > > A wrapper just around a structure like this > > Dictionary<string,Dictionary<string,obj>>, you'll know that locales have > > grown on you. I may have done that recently > > ;) > > > > -Steven T. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
