> This violates universality. Universality is not necessarily a good principle for language design.
1.2 3.4 $ 5.6 |domain error | 1.2 3.4 $5.6 'abc' $ 3 4 5 |domain error | 'abc' $3 4 5 On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Sergey Kamenev <[email protected]> wrote: > 20.11.2014 09:05, Jan-Pieter Jacobs пишет: > >> To give you a more direct reply: >> >> conjunctions, like & and @ work on either verbs or nouns. >> =: and =. are neither, they are a special category called copula. >> >> I hope this clarifies. >> > > It is clear that the assignment is an exception to the rule. > It is unclear why this was done. > This violates universality. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
