> Regarding a preprocessor, could it still be practical > for private use, even if no one else understood the > benefits of the syntax, and was ruled out of being > incorporated into the language?
Why not? No one is going to even seriously consider incorporating your idea unless you provide some working implementation (and you will almost certainly need some experimentation with actual code to get a good design). In a highly interactive language the cost of using a preprocessor is higher in tendency, but you could actually easily provide on-the-fly translation for the interactive console if you hacked up e.g. my J mode for emacs (which reminds me that I really have to update the official distribution). 'as ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
