bill, Believe me I am winning by not being first. All of your contributions are giving me a very instructive course in J programming. I'm on the steep part of my learning curve.
At first glance, The coerase use off the top to clear global variables is something I have not seen before and that surprises me as I would have thought that it would be essential (but I may be missing the nuances of other programs). Oleg's style guide is fantastic. Whether everyone agrees with all the points or not, it provides a great lens to think about programming in J. Again this information may be stated other places, but thank you to Oleg for expressing it so clearly. It is fascinating to see the evolution of this program and the impact of style and expertise. The advice of writing to get it working and rewriting to make it clearer (and shorter) is golden. I think my original version almost got to the working stage, I now see how much more can be done. :-} I still wonder about assigning display to the z locale. I think this may be part of Oleg's suggestion for a new name, 'disprep', but I am concerned that the user would have to know which names are already in the z locale (no matter how obscure) before they safely used this program. Two solutions I have thought about are checking the z locale programmatically before assigning, or making this script a class and the form an object instance. I'm working on my object oriented understanding, so this may be a silly suggestion. Thanks as always for your input. Cheers, bob On -May2-2009, at -May2-20096:35 AM, bill lam wrote: > Ric, You beat Bob. ;-) > > More seriously, I think that radiobutton could also be used here for > multiple selection if the attribute `group' is omitted so that each > radiobutton belongs to it own group. untested. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩298 李商隱 夜雨寄北 > 君問歸期未有期 巴山夜雨漲秋池 何當共剪西窗 > 燭 卻話巴山夜雨時 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
