Fred;
By defined, I presume you mean associated with a pronoun.
A fragment:
new =: 0 : 0 " n
To be precise, the rank for the verb whose definition is in the 0 : 0 scope
is different, in fact independent of the rank of new above.
A way I remember it is:
For all verbs v, the rank of v"n is n.
0 : 0 is a verb, defined by taking lines from the session;
therefore, the rank of 0 : 0 " n is n.
( One downside to J not using its own alphabet is that I'm not sure
sentences that are a mix of J and English will always get parsed properly.
I'm not sure how to fix that. hiho.)
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From: "Fred Bone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "general forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:45 PM
Subject: [Jgeneral] RE: [Jbeta] Possible link error in Dictionary
On 14 Aug 2006 at 12:19, Miller, Raul D said:
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.
Well, yes. But on that argument almost all of the Dictionary is
redundant.
And I still don't see how you can tell from just the parsing rules that
the rank will become the default rank for the verb whose definition is in
the following lines. Let alone that this is the way to go about it.
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