Interpreting NV as the hook N"_ V parallels the interpretation of NVV as the fork N"_ V V . As the hook N"_ V is mostly useless, it is a poor suggestion.
Sent from my iPad On Aug 21, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > N"_ V > would use V's monadic definition but only for side effects. > > N&V > would use V's dyadic definition and give us its result. > > If you use [ for V these two forms would behave equivalently. > > Personally, I prefer both the current implementation (syntax error) > and N&V over N"_ V -- I don't see the value of dedicating a parsing > rule to computing a result and then discarding it. > > But that's just my reasoning. What's yours? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:54 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, it would make NV equivalent to N"_ but in chat I am willing to prefer >> that to N&V ! >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> On Aug 21, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When I think of how this could be used, I think it's kind of disgusting. >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:34 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I would prefer that NV be treated as the hook N"_ V >>>> >>>> Kip Murray >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Please provide examples where simple errors are masked. The thing with NV >>>>> is that it has to occur in _isolation_, so its use has to be quite >>>>> deliberate. >>>>> On 2013-08-21 10:18 AM, "Zsbán Ambrus" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 8/21/13, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Re: [Jchat] Propose (NOUN verb) parses as NOUN&verb >>>>>>> The "harmless" part pertains in part to that there is already an >>>>>>> existing >>>>>>> parse rule (6) that can implement it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Oh, so that's what you mean by harmless. I see this addition as >>>>>> possibly harmful because it would mask simple errors so you catch them >>>>>> only later. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ambrus >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
