Ian, thank you for uploading and creating a lab. I've downloaded it from
svn and used it in jqt 8. I was uncertain how to get started from the wiki
page that referenced it. The lab, test file, and tte.ijs makes it immensely
more clear to me. I've only used it a bit and found it to be very helpful
for a beginner such as myself.




On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can that you can commit changes to svn, can you explain why you cannot
> change the lablist.txt?
>
> On 19 Sep, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It's okay Bill, I've located the one verb I've used in misc.ijs and
> copied
> > it into tte.ijs.
> >
> > It works fine now in JQt.
> >
> > But to run: tte.ijs -needs this line inserting in lablist.txt:
> > Debug;Explicate a given tacit verb;~addons/debug/tte/tte.ijt
> >
> >   open '~addons/labs/labs/lablist.txt'   NB. -to do the hand-edit
> >
> > but I don't know how to fix lablist.txt via svn.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:33 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Try load the specific script inside the specific misc folder
> >>
> >> require '~addons/.../misc/....ijs'
> >>
> >> On 19 Sep, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Further to this, I've uploaded a new addon: 'debug/tte'
> >>>
> >>> used like this:
> >>>  require 'debug/tte'
> >>>  mytacitverb tte
> >>>
> >>> Studio > Labs --shows a new lab under Category: Debug:
> >>>    Explicate (convert to explicit) a given tacit verb
> >>>
> >>> Or you can get some rough'n'ready documentation with:
> >>>  ABOUT_tte_
> >>>
> >>> At present it only works under j602. When I try it under j64-801 it
> fails
> >>> because:
> >>>  require 'misc'
> >>> is no longer supported, giving the error: not found:
> >>> /Applications/j64-801/bin/misc
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks Ian. trace looks helpful too. I hadn't stumbled upon that yet.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Joe Bogner asks:
> >>>>> " Is there a utility to generate an explicit definition from a tacit
> >>>>> definition?"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There've certainly been attempts at one. There hasn't been any
> >> published
> >>>>> improvement on this one by Zsban Ambrus:
> >>>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/TacitToExplicit
> >>>>> ...though I've had an add-on on the stocks, waiting to get properly
> >>>> tested
> >>>>> for almost a year now. (Sorry... it was low priority.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I also wrote a "roadmap" a year ago to pull together all the relevant
> >>>> stuff
> >>>>> on jwiki...
> >>>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Tacit_to_explicit_roadmap
> >>>>> ...but I notice I didn't finish it (it needs to mention Ambrus's
> "tte",
> >>>> and
> >>>>> it's incomplete in "Approach #2").
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm learning the evaluation rules for tacit expressions, since that
> is
> >>>>>> what's commonly posted as solutions. Is there a utility to generate
> an
> >>>>>> explicit definition from a tacit definition?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> For example, to generate a tacit expression from explicit
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 13 : '(+/ y) % # y'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> +/ % #
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is there some routine to expand that out? (I've now learned that
> its a
> >>>>>> fork).  It seems possible that it could expand out to multiple
> >> possible
> >>>>>> variants -- since as I understand, it's a reduced form. I've looked
> at
> >>>>>> fndisplay but didn't put too much time into it yet since I wasn't
> sure
> >>>>> that
> >>>>>> it's what I was looking for.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Along those same lines, j6 shows a representation of an expression
> in
> >>>>> boxes
> >>>>>> which I've found to be helpful to understand how an expression is
> >>>>> grouped.
> >>>>>> I haven't seen that same functionality in j7 or j8. Does it exist?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I find myself spending a fair amount of time taking an expression
> and
> >>>>> then
> >>>>>> looking up its parts in the Vocabulary to understand what its doing.
> >>>>>>
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