Good point.
I agree that tacit programming is best left as an advanced topic.
What we have here is an explicit adverb that produces a desired verb
result. Most users wouldn't want it - they would want a verb. They can
do that easily enough.
Raul has shown an elegant way to create an adverb that is readable as an
explicit entity but performs like a tacit entity. Really now: isn't
that for J experts only?
Henry Rich
On 11/22/2021 8:21 PM, Ian Clark wrote:
I like that title.
I like it too – as the title of an essay communicated between J experts
which tersely sums up its contents.
But, as the Japanese say: I'm about to utter a rude thing…
I think the very word "tacit" should be banned from all material likely to
be viewed by J newcomers.
Specifically, everything in NuVoc above the subheading: "More Information".
There are two uses of the word "tacit" which I'd wholeheartedly endorse:
++ J promotes itself tacitly.
++ There is tacit acceptance of J's status as Information Technology's
number one mystery religion.
I guess I'm in the minority over this issue: a minority of one. I'm going
over to Chat to expand on my views on the matter.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 15:11, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
I like that title.
Henry Rich
On 11/22/2021 8:56 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
Hmm...
One issue here is that the specific example in this thread was
"pretty" because of two arbitrary obstacles:
(1) email line wrapping, and
(2) it was an ad-hoc cd call with a large cd signature.
In other words, there's a niche for this kind of thing, but outside of
email exchanges there's less pressure to use this technique. And, it's
worth thinking about alternative examples (like maybe tacit
expressions which contain an agenda with a large gerund).
So, anyways, ... I've been trying to come up with some better examples
But turning this into a wiki page raises another issue: what would be
a good name for that wiki page? Would "Tacit Valued Explicit
Definitions" be sufficiently evocative?
Thanks,
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