On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Thomas Costigliola <[email protected]>wrote:
By the way, is there a convention on this forum for hiding spoilers in
posts?


I guess the broad convention is just to give a warning; I like to say
something as:


Such a verb v comes in...

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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Thomas Costigliola <[email protected]>wrote:

> By the way, is there a convention on this forum for hiding spoilers in
> posts?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Thomas Costigliola <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Got it now. But I still need some rest to really understand it.
> >
> > Here is more weirdness:
> >
> >    1 2 ]@v 1 2 3
> > 2 3
> > 3 4
> > 4 5
> >    1 2 v 1 2 3
> > |length error: v
> > |   1 2     v 1 2 3
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> yes.
> >>
> >> It's not a special-code trick.  v is a verb.  ] could be anything, and
> >> the same weirdness would result.
> >>
> >>    1 2 v 2 3
> >> 3 5
> >>    1 2 (v) 2 3
> >> 3 5
> >>    1 2 ]@v 2 3
> >> 3 4
> >> 4 5
> >>    1 2 ]@(v) 2 3
> >> 3 4
> >> 4 5
> >>
> >>
> >> Henry Rich
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/7/2013 6:43 PM, Dan Bron wrote:
> >>
> >>> My question #2 had two clauses with opposite senses (i.e. it was an
> >>> either/or question), so an unqualified "no" is an ambiguous response.
>  Let
> >>> me phrase it as a strict yes/no question:
> >>>
> >>> Does  x ]@(v) y necessarily produce the same result as x ]@v y ?
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to prune out lines of inquiry which would be unsurprising or
> >>> at least mundane. Since adverbs can see their entire verbal argument,
> >>> phrases like ]@+/ and ]@(+/) are fundamentally different, even if they
> >>> produce the same results when applied to arguments. In short, if my v
> is
> >>> given access to the ]@ then all sorts of doors are opened (this is
> actually
> >>> how most special code is implemented) and the puzzle is not so
> interesting.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If, on the other hand, we're taking about a ]@(v) which differs from
> >>> plain (v), that is very interesting; and if the DoJ does in fact
> legitimize
> >>> it (or at least fail to prohibit it), then it is fascinating!
> >>>
> >>> -Dan
> >>>
> >>> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  1 yes; 2 no; 3 not exactly specified; guess incorrect
> >>>>
> >>>> Henry Rich
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6/7/2013 4:36 PM, Dan Bron wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Three questions:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     #1  Is v necessarily a verb?
> >>>>>     #2  Does the effect depend upon v being anonymous, or will it
> work
> >>>>> if v is assigned to a name and/or wrapped in parens?
> >>>>>     #3  Is the effect indicated, contraindicated, or unspecified by
> the
> >>>>> Dictionary?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Dan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> PS:  My initial guess is this is almost certainly a bug introduced by
> >>>>> some
> >>>>> special-code optimization.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: programming-bounces@forums.**jsoftware.com<
> [email protected]>
> >>>>> [mailto:programming-bounces@**forums.jsoftware.com<
> [email protected]>]
> >>>>> On Behalf Of Henry Rich
> >>>>> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 3:14 PM
> >>>>> To: Programming forum
> >>>>> Subject: [Jprogramming] A puzzle
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For what sort of v does
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     ]@v
> >>>>>
> >>>>> give different results than
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     v
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ?  No side effects.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      1 2 v 1 2
> >>>>> 2 4
> >>>>>      1 2 ]@v 1 2
> >>>>> 2 3
> >>>>> 3 4
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Henry Rich
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