On Dec 14, 2007 9:21 AM, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  * Require the programmer to separate atoms by spaces (of course not after
>  or before opening and closing parentheses, like in (3 + a) * 4).
>  * Allow all combinations of printable ASCII characters as symbols, e.g.
>  2* (for monadic +:), ^2 (for monadic *:), %2 (for monadic -:), ++ (for
>  monadic >:), -- (for monadic <:).

Atoms has a different meaning in J, but I think he means "words".  But
words in J can have spaces in them.  For example, the following (valid)
J sentence contains three words:
   1 2 3;'4 5 6'

I am not sure how this fits in with the above proposal (which, as an aside
might be for a J-like language, but would not be for J itself -- when you
change the words you change the language).

-- 
Raul
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