Should the APL symbols be single character symbols like + and - ? Not to be used as part of a name? On Jul 4, 2016 1:53 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
