Warning - off-topic comment follows but I was reminded of the following:
Niklaus Wirth used to observe that, in Europe, people pronounce his name more or less correctly as "Nee klaus Virth". In America, however, his name is pronounced more like "Nickel's Worth". So, in Europe they call him by name but in America we call him by value. On 3/4/07, John Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ramacd wrote: > When Mr.Wirth comes up with a useful interpretative rule for > > x f y g z NB. f,g are verbs; x,y,z are nouns > > other than right-associative, I'll listen to him. Was there even an > established convention in 1962? Sure, for arithmetic operators: binary + - * / associate left to right, binary ^ and unary + - associate right to left. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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