[Jprogramming] Update of Enhanced View and request for input

[robert therriault]

Hi Bill and thanks for the feedback,

I boxed the array of symbols more as a test that the box would be drawn in the proper place. Getting the boxes into the right position when unicode and unicode4 characters occur has been one of the ongoing challenges to this process. If the array of symbols was unboxed then the result would look very similar to the display of i. 4 3 right at the beginning, except of course the entries would be symbols instead of integers.

Your suggestion of identifying the string type is an interesting one. Is that something that would be of use when using symbols? I think that it could be done by using 5 s: <'identifier' as follows then packaging the info into the tooltips.

    3!:0 each 5 s: s:< 9 u: 'a'
┌─┐
│2│
└─┘
   3!:0 each 5 s: s:< 9 u: 'ఠ'
┌──────┐
│131072│
└──────┘
   3!:0 each 5 s: s:< 9 u: '😀'
┌──────┐
│262144│
└──────┘
   
 I wonder if there may be confusion over the type of the entry, which is symbol, and the type of the label which could be literal, unicode or unicode4. Do you have any thoughts on the usefulness of this information versus the confusion of having more than one type associated with a given entry?

Cheers, bob

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 8:03 PM, bill lam <bbill.lam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> I noticed you used boxed symbol as an example, why unboxed
> symbol was not being used?
> 
> Each element of a symbol array can be literal or unicode string,
> you may also show the type of its element.
> 
> Чт, 06 окт 2016, robert therriault написал(а):
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I have released a video that updates the Enhanced View and particularly to get input on the type of information that should be supplied for symbol and sparse array types. I have made some preliminary choices, but since I do not commonly use these types, it would be great to get feedback from those who are more familiar with these types.
>> 
>> Enhanced Update video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6PTHmwgCLA
>> 
>> Cheers, bob
>> 
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