I like Neville's suggestions. Skip Cave
neville holmes wrote: > I know it's rather presumptuous of me coming into this > project from the sidelines, but, given the idea is to > make things easier for novices, I do feel careful > consideration should be given to J names. > > For example, in the names of Ian Clark's stubs: > > = equal > =. equalperiod > =: equalcolon > < less > <. lessperiod > <: lesscolon > >> greater >> . greaterperiod >> : greatercolon >> > > Surely it should be equaldot &c. simply because, > for a novice it's one syllable rather than three > and for someone needing an English dictionary > it's less ambiguous. > > Even more pedantically, less and greater strictly > refer to magnitudes and lower and higher would be > better. Otherwise, less means subtraction and > lesser would be better than less. > > Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
