Matthew Baulch wrote: > > You're probably right that an ASCII name of its own would be better. > Not many primitive names available, it seems. Oh well.
Infinitely many J primitive names are available. From <http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict1.htm>, [emphasis mine]: A primitive or primary may be denoted by a single graphic (such as + for plus) or by a graphic modified by ONE OR MORE following inflections (a period or colon), as in +. and +: for or and nor. A primary may also be an inflected name, as in e. and o. for membership and pi times. This was a concious design decision. There are already primitives with more than one inflections [exercise: find them], which were added in later times to the language. The Words ;: scanner tokenizes according to this rule, too. So: it would be no problem to place new primitives at, say, ".:.:. "::. and call them CamelDo and PoodleDo, most easily to remember. Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
