I think he means in comparison to strictly monadic "f()" notation, e.g. writing this as something like +(1,2,3,4).
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/25/08, Viktor Cerovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Iverson thus desires to have a convention that decreases the number of > > parenthesis used, without increasing the complexity of the convention > > itself, subject to one unspoken rule: that expressions involve monadic > > and dyadic operations. Dyadic operations are now increasing the > > complexity of both his and the "standard" mathematical convention with > > respect to the canonical, monadic-only parenthesizing (non-)convention > > of the maximal clarity and the maximal use of parenthesis. > > I am not sure why you would think that supporting operations like > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 > increases the complexity of a notation. > > ... -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
