On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, Raul Miller wrote:
J's conjunctions can accept two verb arguments and create a single
result. A fork contains three verbs. So I think that fork construction
using conjunctions must happen "in stages", with some sort of
intermediate result to "bridge the gap"
I agree!
This is what I was trying to do with left and right fork, with the stages
being augmentation of the left and right tines (respectively) of some new
fork. Only I didn't think it through.
That said, a conjunction which combines two verbs to create a hook and
another conjunction which takes a verb and a hook and creates the
analogous fork sound plausibly interesting.
I find this problematic, because the second conjunction is not general.
Its only purpose is to create forks from hooks. (Either that, or it
behaves differently for hooks and non-hooks, in which case what if you
want to apply the non-hook behaviour to a hook?)
+/`% cfork #
+/ % #
+/`% cfork # 1 2 3
2
If you have already accepted gerunds, why not go all the way? +/`%`# `: 6
(And the conjunction C0`C1`C2`:6.)
-E
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