I prefer to write several small pieces in local definitions. Then put them
together with f. for the definition I want to keep.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Sherlock, Ric <r.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nz>wrote:
> I certainly agree that documentation helps, and that often even more
> helpful (as Raul usually points out) are some example inputs.
>
> My point below was that some of the steps obfuscate the code making it
> harder to see what was going on.
>
> When I develop code I often end up with long one-liners that are not
> necessarily easy to read - sort of tacit spaghetti code. How much effort I
> put into making the intention of the code more obvious depends on how much I
> think myself and others will use the code. That effort includes
> simplification, breaking the line up into meaningful chunks, formatting and
> documentation.
>
>
> > From: Markus Schmidt-Gröttrup
> > Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 09:05
> >
> > It is not easy to read and understand the lines. So what? How can I
> > know its intention?
> > I have written programs that look similiar. But I knew the intention
> > and normally wrote down it.
> > So for programs like this writing J is an engineers task, reading an
> > archaeologists.
> > An engineers program in my opinion should show up a bit of
> > documentation.
> >
> > Am 15.11.2010 19:41, schrieb Sherlock, Ric:
> > > It isn't hard to parse, but I can't say I find it easy to read. I
> > think that is because it has several irrelevant steps that make me
> > wonder what it is trying to do. I think the following are equivalent
> > and easier to read (for me)
> > > [: +/ (({.&.":)&>@p:@i.
> > > or
> > > +/@(({.&.":)&>@p:@i.)
> > >
> > > Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Björn Helgason<gos...@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 04:39
> > > To: Programming forum<programming@jsoftware.com>
> > > Subject: [Jprogramming] tacit programming
> > >
> > >
> > > It would be interesting to know how many J ers can easily read tacit
> > > programs.
> > >
> > > A line like
> > >
> > > [: +/ [:> [: ".&.> [: [ [: {.&.> [: [ [: ":&.>@p: i.
> > >
> > > This is something I am not too comfortable to read nor write just
> > like that
> > > even if I do know what it is supposed to do.
> > >
> > > Question is if people see it as a better way to program like this
> > tacitly
> > > than just do it in more lines and easily understood steps?
> > >
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