Perhaps @ should not count as a 'thing' here. The language could have
been defined so that u v meant the composition of u and v; is the
space a thing then? How many 'things' is f g h ?
For my mental load, parentheses are things; @ and @: nothing; fork
something; hook something more.
Henry Rich
On 2/4/2013 12:21 AM, km wrote:
And we can notice that with v c v c v c v (four verbs and three
conjunctions) we reach your count of seven!
Incidentally, replacing |. with ] improves my examples:
-@]/ 1 2 3
3
-@(]/) 1 2 3
_3
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On Feb 3, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote:
My experience has been that my openness to long chains of modifiers has
increased as I get better at reading J. Also, I find value in the
widespread idea that seven, plus or minus two, is a count of things that
people can keep in mind simultaneously. I don't think it's worth proposing
specific standards for what counts as "a thing" for such tallying, but do
think it's worth noticing as a rough guide.
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