John asked: > What kind of word-formatting > do you want to do? Sorry, I meant word-forming, as in ;: . My initial thought is to (minimally) modify the FSM given in the definition of monad ;: such that sequences of (appropriate) Unicode characters are recognized as words. I'll then Punycode-encode those words, and pass the resulting (pure ASCII) sentence on to J for execution.
In the next iteration, I'm going to replace certain J primitives and standard functions in the input sentence with cover functions containing Unicode-preprocessors, to allow the expected level of meta-programming (for example, I'd need cover functions for ". and load ). I'm also considering the wisdom of applying these substitutions to the entire existing namespace, when my framework is loaded. Though the approach has its limitations and blind spots, it seems to me to be the easiest way to implement a J/APL-like language on top of J (i.e. that is, I'm trying to avoid writing a full parser by reusing J's tools). -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
