> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames The script: charname.ijs now has the missing verb: cmx. I've also included: cut -since I've noticed more than one definition of that floating about.
NB. I've appended yet another proposal, which is in charname.ijs as: CHARNAME_CAMEL. This is for a set of CamelCase pages at the top level of the Wiki. They are all listed on /FormalPageNames/ . Notice they are all currently in grey. This offers a lot of advantages for easy hyperlinking --and easy access over the web. ...Somebody tell me the disadvantages, now. Ian On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Skip Cave <s...@caveconsulting.com> wrote: > It is true that the Wiki page names will mostly not typically be used by > the reader. However, I think that it would still be nice to have the > page names have the following characteristics: > > 1) The page name should use common English names that obviously tie to > the symbols on the associated page. An English-speaking person should be > able to easily determine the referenced symbol from it's ASCII page > name. Most people should be able to pick the symbol out of a list of all > of the J symbols, given its' ASCII page name. This eliminates names such > as "circum", "circumflex", or "asciicircum" for "hat" (who knew?). > > 2) The names should be as short as possible without loosing their > semantic content. > That makes "star" better than "asterisk" (shorter), number for > numbersign, amp for ampersand, quotsing for quotesingle , dot for > period, under for underscore, and tilde for asciitilde I know that > "star" means something different in the APL character set, but we are > only concerned with pure ASCII here, and the general English-speaking > audience. > > There is no reason to tie this naming scheme to any other "standard". > IMHO, it is more important to have an easy connection between the page > name and the symbol that any English speaker can grasp, than following > some standard. A secondary goal would be the brevity of the ASCII name. > . > Ian has posted my proposal on his PageNames page: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames > > Thanks Ian.. By the way, I couldn't get your charname.ijs working. I > kept getting an error on the undefined verb "cmx" in the script. > > Skip Cave > . > . > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
