On Mon, 01 Jun 2009, Don Watson wrote:
> However, I am interested in your statement that:
> "control words may not be a part of a legal sentence".
> Since we are mixing oil and water, this definition is not
> part of history, but a definition of J. I must admit that I
> did not think enough about placing control words in a
> sentence and just threw them in for luck. What would
> help me is an explanation of why the creators of J
> decided not to allow control words in sentences.
I disagree with Raul on the meaning of script. I tend to think script
as that written on paper, or inside a file in the context of computer.
I would rather say
verb=: 3 : 0
...
...
)
forms a `paragraph'. There is usually a blank line after the
terminating `)' just as there usually are blank lines separating
paragraphs.
However I agree with Raul on control words. I even think control
structure does not belong to J because the J stack parser will not
handle those control words at all.
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