No. It says that '(' is a noun.
Your experiments show that you can't assign "nothing" (or purely
punctuation) to a name. Just as:
o=:
|syntax error
| o=:
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks your sources are helpful.
>
> Here's another weird one. Grammar says that parentheses are punctuation.
>
>
> o=:(+)
> o
> +
> nc <'o'
> 3
> o=:()
> |syntax error
> | o=:()
> o=:(
> |syntax error
> | o=:(
>
> o=:'('
> o
> (
> nc <'o'
> 0
>
> Does this say ( is a noun?
>
> Linda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of km
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 4:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] A tale of two nouns
>
> Linda,
>
> f =: '=:' NB. f is a string of two characters
> $f
> 2
>
> Your g appears to be a string of three characters.
>
> About your sentence attempting to define i check for a space between =
> and :
>
> Finally, about =: please see Appendix E. Parts of Speech:
>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/partsofspeech.htm
>
> There you will see =: is not a "verb" in the J sense of that term. Also
> see II. Grammar
>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dict2.htm
>
> where =: is identified as a sixth "part of speech" Copula.
>
> Kip
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2013, at 2:24 AM, "Linda Alvord" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > f =: '=:'
> >
> > nc <'f'
> >
> > 0
> >
> > g =: '= :'
> >
> > nc <'g'
> >
> > 0
> >
> > h =: *:
> >
> > h 7 11
> >
> > 49 121
> >
> > i = : *:
> >
> > i = :*:
> >
> > i 7 11
> >
> >
> >
> > i 7 11
> >
> > |value error: i
> > | i 7 11
> >
> >
> >
> > f and g are both nouns, but they aren't the same noun.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is f really a noun? If "is" is a verb, isn't "=:" a verb?
> >
> >
> >
> > Linda
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