On 5/16/08, Patrick van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering how members of the forum go about construction of Tacit > statements?
I approach tacit programming rather like algebraic manipulations, in that I first focus on getting something that works properly and then I try and find various small changes which are equivalent for the case I am interested in, with an eye towards eventual simplicity. Note also that I use J's command line rather extensively here. I am most productive when I have some representative and manageable sample data for my tacit expression(s) to work on. Then I can just recall a previous line, change something and try and see if I like the result. However, for complicated expressions I may break out sub-expressions and focus on them with suitable arguments. (Mostly I do this when I am trying to understand other people's code, but sometimes I find this useful with my own code -- especially when some experiment did not turn out like I expected.) -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
