Patience please. All will be revealed in the beta-i release tomorrow afternoon.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:34 AM Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, what do they do? I can't find anything about them except in this > thread. > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 8:24 AM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > {{ }} will be used in a step between word formation and parsing > > > > You're suggesting here that there will NEVER be a use/occasion to see a > > string that contains these new characters with a need to interpret them > how > > J would. If such a raw string might be useful, then modifying some of > the > > tokens it contains could as well. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, October 19, 2020, 09:26:30 a.m. EDT, Henry Rich < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > {{. etc will NOT be defined as single words. > > > > {{ }} will be used in a step between word formation and parsing, and > > will never be seen in parsing. I don't think it matters much whether > > {{. is defined as a word or not. The state table for word recognition > > is the same size either way. > > > > Henry Rich > > > > On 10/18/2020 11:01 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote: > > > Both are possible, but existing state machine requires fewer new > entries > > if }}. is not a defined token. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, October 18, 2020, 10:20:59 p.m. EDT, Raul Miller < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That would be the simplest implementation (and it's kind of critical > > > if code which uses ;: to manipulate j expressions should be expected > > > to continue to work). > > > > > > Me, I'm wondering if this means that }}: and }}. will be treated as > > > single words. It seems like that should be the case (because otherwise > > > it gets harder to explain to rules for : and . in reserved words), but > > > I do not know enough about where things stand. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > -- > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > https://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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
