Thanks Tracy, I was looking for hotspots to improve my understanding of the way adverbs could be understood and Key and Cut sound like good starting places. I have used them occasionally but not so much with the meta-view I'm trying to develop now. I find it a little like the difference between using a knife in the kitchen and studying the metallurgy of blades; using a tool is only one facet of understanding.
I'll post my reflections once I've done a little digging. Cheers, bob On 2010-11-23, at 5:46 AM, Tracy Harms wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> I am starting to think of adverbs as a kind of preprocessor for a verb by >> changing the way arguments are parsed/adjusted prior to use. This may be a >> flawed view :) >> >> > If this view accommodates a rich understanding of Key (/.) and Cut (;.) I'd > wager it's not flawed. If your view of adverbs shifts with improved > understanding of these, I'll be eager to hear your revised summary. > > This is not to imply that you don't know those operators well. I have no > idea how well you understand them. I'n my experience, they're touchstones > for my understanding of operators. I often still need to study them when I > use them, but I'm getting better at knowing when they apply and the study > seems shorter each time. > > -- > Tracy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
