Harvey wrote: 'Thus, as I see it, there are some basic J verbal
constructions to get things done (such as reading/writing an array from/to a
file) that are just going to have to be accepted on faith by newbies and
learned by rote, so that they can use newly learned primitives with data
that's meaningful to them.'

I agree. Being able to experience J on real data is so exciting. Dyalog APL
has excellent clipboard support which I miss in J. Could we have a clipboard
facility for Windows as good as Dyalog has? We now have wd 'clipcopy' and wd
'clippaste', which usually require some string manipulation to get the data
into the right shape, especially if we are wanting to read in numbers. Would
verbs like wincopy and winpaste, being dyadic and monadic respectively, each
with a right argument specifying the target data type, be useful? Does
somebody already have them to share?

Regards

Graham


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