Note that my context there was a specific transform which is used in compressing text. While you might be comfortable generalizing that to all of J, I'll have to confess that I have not thought enough about the broader context to be comfortable making any comments about it.
-- Raul On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:46 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops, what Raul said was > > Also, the important qualities are 1) reversibility and 2) compressibility. > > Kip > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:42 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Strunk and White begin "The Elements of Style" with "Elementary Rules of >> Usage", for example using >> >> It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas >> >> to illustrate the difference between it's and its. >> >> >> In J we could use >> >> +: - -: 12 >> _12 >> (+: - -:) 12 >> 18 >> >> to illustrate the difference between f g h y and (f g h) y . >> >> >> Strunk and White next take up "Principles of Composition", one of which is >> "Omit needless words." >> >> Raul recently mentioned simplicity and reversibility. What do you have in >> your personal book for writing J? >> >> Kip Murray >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
