On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like Bill has put his finger on it. I guessed it had something > to do with deferred definition. It worried me that typing this into > IJX... > plus=: + in > executed 'in' at assignment time, not when 'plus' was run by the handler. > (Maybe this part of the discussion should be moved to Programming forum?)
I do not believe that this discussion belongs on the general forum. General's charter is: "Installation, support, website and other infrastructure topics" It should perhaps be renamed "infrastructure"? I have been responding in chat (I can not control what other people do, but I can control what I do), though I wonder if you all are subscribed to chat... Anyways, in J, the actions associated with adverbs and constructions and verbs which have their nouns happen at "parse time" where the actions associated with tacit verbs happen at "execution time". But APL does not have tacit verbs. And, I am mildly surprised that you find the APL-like behavior worrisome. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
