Marshall, I am sorry about the misspelling earlier On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Jose Mario Quintana < jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the one hand, Marshal asserts that Unbox allows the use of UTF-8 based > identifiers in a way that "is completely backwards-compatible with > existing J." which I find very appealing. > > On the other hand, you (Jsoftware) decided strongly against it because > "the disadvantages strongly outweighed the advantages." > > Would you mind to elaborate on what the disadvantages are? > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> We (Jsoftware) talked about unicode identifiers quite a bit years ago when >> we added uft8 and utf16 support to J. We finally decided we were strongly >> against it. The disadvantages strongly outweighed the advantages. I don't >> think anything has changed in the interim. >> >> I doubt unicode names will be in official Jsoftware releases for a long >> time, if ever. >> >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Unbox has code to allow unicode identifiers in J, with the following >> > rules: >> > >> > - All code must be UTF-8. Invalid UTF-8 causes a spelling error. >> > - Any non-ASCII character is treated as alphabetic. Identifiers can use >> > these characters freely. >> > >> > This is completely backwards-compatible with existing J, and allows us >> > to use things like greek characters and code in other languages: >> > >> > π >> > |value error: π >> > π =: 1p1 >> > π >> > 3.14159 >> > π_1 >> > |value error: π_1 >> > >> > What do people think about this? Should it be added to jsource? Should >> > the rules be changed for some characters? >> > >> > Marshall >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
