"y" as in the standard name of the right argument to a J verb. One important reason for J's unusual terminology is to avoid the muddled and imprecise terms used in more conventional languages. For instance, APL uses the terms "operator" versus "function" in a sense close to mathematics, roughly corresponding to J's "adverb" and "verb", but these same words are used to make a trivial distinction in other languages, e.g. a C "operator" is a built-in function with a name consisting (usually) of non-alphabetic characters, like "+" or "-".
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:00 PM, DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > '(6!:2) Execute. Seconds to execute sentence y.' what sentence y.? > > foreign?? at least it is not alien, ha ha > conjunctions?? > > can't we do J without all this language stuff? > > thanks > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
