Fred Bone wrote:
> Yes; perhaps I wasn't clear. I was talking not about
> applying the verb with a given rank, but about defining
> it. I eventually remembered the syntax, for example:
> wossname =. 4 : 0 " 1 0
> I still can't find where this is documented.
J syntax is documented in appendix E of the dictionary
("Parsing and Execution").
For example, wossname =. 4 : 0 " 1 0 has the syntax
mark name asgn noun conj noun conj noun
To parse this by the rules of appendix E, you would
take the above sentence and use it to populate the
parsing queue, and you'd start with an empty stack.
Then, you'd shift values from the queue to the stack
until the queue looks like
mark name
and the stack looks like
asgn noun conj noun conj noun
>From appendix E, the first rule that triggers on
this sentence is rule 4 (Conj), which executes
4 : 0, and produces a dyad. Once this has happened,
the derived sentence has the syntax
mark name asgn verb conj noun
Again, rule 4 triggers, but this time the conjunction
is " and the noun is 1 0, and the derived syntax is
mark name asgn verb
Finally, rule 7 (Is) triggers, and execution of the
sentence is completed.
--
Raul
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