I agree that it is important to document well how to communicate with files etc.
Those kind of operations are often the first things a newbie wants to do. For a person familiar with J all those things are easy and it is easy to forget that there may be a need to explain it better. The functionality is all there and it is explained a bit but more actual explanations and examples would be helpful. If you feel something is missing feel free to explain what you want to do. 2010/2/9 Graham Parkhouse <graham.parkho...@ntlworld.com>: > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: gos...@gmail.com gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
