I respect your opinion.
Please assume I speak from ignorance.
Learning J is a true challenge for me.
I am looking for any ways to ease the hard parts.
The chiefest challenge is memorizing the one and two character sequences.
They seem to vanish from mind almost as fast as I learn them.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Lettvin <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> > Doxygen does much more than read comments, it analyzes structure too.
> > It would be desirable for someone deeply versed in J to write the Doxygen
> J
> > code.
>
>
> Most J code has the structure
> name =: value
>
> I believe additional structural analysis is considerably beyond
> the scope of doxygen -- to my knowledge, doxygen has no
> concept of rank and would not be prepared to do anything
> special with conjunctions, adverbs or forks (or, for that matter,
> parenthesis).
>
> J does support some "block level keywords", but these are primarily
> used for degenerate cases and in any event comprise a very small
> part of the bulk of well written J programs.  Enshrining them with
> special documentation support not given to the rest of J seems a
> step in the wrong direction.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Raul
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