Does this scheme support easily assigning a default value to a variable, that is, assigning only if the name is currently unused? This is a common case for me and I'm just now realizing that the "default" option doesn't really do that.
See https://github.com/mlochbaum/JSound/blob/master/wav.ijs for an example, where I'm forced to write an awkward line of code to set the default format to 16-bit 44.1kHz. This seems easy enough to support with another trailing character on the name, like ^ or ?. So I would write 'FMT? F?' =: 1 16;44100 instead of the current version. On a side note, Earl Grey is a good language to look at if you are interested in more sophisticated assignment schemes. I don't know if much of it is relevant to J, but it's very cool to see what can happen if you build a language to handle pattern matching from the bottom up. See http://www.earl-grey.io/doc.html, up to the section on pattern matching. Marshall On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:40:52AM -0400, HenryRich wrote: > Here is a feature that I have wanted for a long time: > > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Interpreter/Requests#Expanded_Multiple_Assignment > > It attempts to solve the problem of moving verb arguments into > variable-names. Allows defaults and multilevel arguments. I will implement > this within a month or so, so get your comments in ASAP. > > Henry Rich > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
