"Stuart Bruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, how many of you would automatically try (as I did) to > interpret the following nonsense that appeared as the header from a piece of > spam I received? > > :[[(- .]]:!*: +()! *)[(:[ ! )+!*-! > > I initially thought it was a misplaced J Forum email. I can't decide whether > it's sadder that I tried to interpret it, or that it took me about 3 seconds > to > realize it what it actually was :-(
Well, that's what I thought at first, but a couple of things immediately give it away) 1) the leading : means that, at best, this is an adverb meaning "change dyad to (...)" 3) ]: is an adverb (Identity) in J4, but was decommissioned in J5 2) () is always a syntax error 2) the (: is a spelling error. Game over. Of course, the - .] has the white space typical of a J dot-product Unfortunately, unlike English, J is much less redundant, so the probability that a random string of characters has some kind of meaning is higher. -- Mark D. Niemiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
