Hi Kip,
You said:
(I wouldn't mind being Skip, but I'm Kip!)
My apologies, I apologise for getting confused between you and
Skip Cave.
You said:
> When the interpreter, scanning from right to left, saw ^0.5, it checked to
> see whether there was
> a left argument for ^ because ^0.5 by itself means e to the power 0.5, but
> 4^0.5 would mean 4 to
> the power 0.5. Working inside the parentheses from right to left, the
> interpreter evaluated ^2
> as e^2, ([ - ]) e^2 as 0, +/0 as 0 and gave a domain error for [: 0
> because [: is a verb that
> rejects all arguments.
>
> The main point is that 0.5 triggered an attempt to evaluate, verbs 2"_ and
> 0.5"_ do not trigger
> such attempts.
>
That's interesting. So there is a different process in evaluating the
creation of a verb in tacit programming and the use of that verb when
execution takes place. Surely in execution the expression to the right of
"[:" has to produce a result, doesn't it?
Don
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