On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:44 AM, neville holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Therefore it is feasible to express times and dates in much > the same way that 1j2 and 3r4 and the like are expressed. > A date would have at least a y and an m embedded as in > 2008y12m01 and this could be extended to greater precision > as in 2008y12m1d1h46m19 for example. > > The difference between two dates would be a time interval > expressible for example as 2h34m58.56 with the possibility > of including days and possibly weeks in front of such > values.
Q's implementation of support for dates and times is interesting, and seem's elegant to me. (Arthur Whitney's Q). However, I am not sure if this would fit into J, mostly because of the differences between J's locales and Q's trees, and also because of J's word formation rules, for words that use . -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
