A boxed verb should behave as any other noun, and you can punt on the
issue of what happens when you try to unbox one (say, by making it an
error).
(That said, it was not an entirely serious suggestion.)
-E
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, Raul Miller wrote:
A problem with boxed verbs is that they're rather difficult to fully
describe -- they introduce the syntactic ambiguities of adverbs and
conjunctions but of course with a different syntax. And, it's sort of
open ended what happens in each of a wide variety of situations.
(Which, in practice, means a wide variety of errors and/or crashes.)
It's not that there's anything impossible about having verb results be
verbs. But most people here in the forums have trouble understanding
J's existing parsing rules, even without this complexity.
--
Raul
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 9:28 PM Elijah Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, Henry Rich wrote:
> would make noun"_ problematic because boxed arguments might look like gerunds
Permitting boxed verbs (suggested elsewhere) would solve this problem,
more-or-less.
> On 12/27/2021 10:01 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
>> Ok, that makes sense.
>>
>> Also, your statement:
>>
>>> u"n is defined to do two things: partitioning and assigning a rank
>>> for combining purposes.
>> is key, here, I think.
>>
>> Would we lose any important identities if the partitioning for cyclic
>> gerunds were one rank lower than the rank for combining purposes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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