J interpreter must know when a noun is a gerund, so is it possible to add a new 
primitive to test for gerund? Or is there already J script to test for gerund?

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On 3 Aug, 2017, at 3:36 AM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I expect to make some more improvements to dyad u"n, and eventually to
> rewrite the monad to match the dyad.  My availability to work on this will
> be intermittent for a while.  The 8.06 code as is works, and fixes a
> long-standing bug reported by Martin Neitzel.
> 
> I have suggested using m"n, where n is not _, to implement a cyclic gerund
> m.  If m doesn't look like a gerund, it would be treated as a simple noun.
> While this is not strictly compatible, I think it very unlikely that it
> would break any existing code.  I think m"n was wrongly defined and that
> this is the correct definition.  My opinion is not universally shared so I
> haven't acted on it.
> 
> Henry Rich
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Costigliola <fo...@iocane.net> wrote:
> 
>> You can try removing the conditional statement enclosing that line, but
>> for now I would say the patch is broken under Clang. Since the rank code
>> was completely rewritten in J805 and J806 and ":: is based on the J804 rank
>> with some unfinished updates Henry was working on, the real solution is to
>> rewrite ":: based on the new rank code. But that should wait until the code
>> is stable. Does anyone anticipate more changes?
>> 
>> On a more philosophical note, ":: implements gerund left arguments that
>> apply to the items cyclically. The reason for adding a new primitive and
>> not extending ": is because it breaks using ": to define constant
>> functions. If someone has any ideas to make them play nicely together then
>> they can be merged into a single primitive. The issue is that there is no
>> distinction between a noun and gerund.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> -Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/02/2017 11:52 AM, bill lam wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, I use Clang and have -Werror -Wextra in CFLAGS.
>>> Sometimes vs2013 is much less tolerant.
>>> 
>>> Ср, 02 авг 2017, Thomas Costigliola написал(а):
>>> 
>>>> That looks like Henry's code taken from cr.c at some older version. It
>>>> compiles fine for me in GCC and Visual Studio 2013. It is in the
>>>> implementation of "::, which seems to be working in my tests, so that
>>>> code
>>>> never gets hit. Are you using Clang? It's much less tolerant of code like
>>>> that.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> -Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> On 08/02/2017 11:21 AM, bill lam wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> When I tried to compile, but this line in best.c failed.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    *((I*)0)=0;  // scaf
>>>>> 
>>>>> and I can not understand its intention, access to memory
>>>>> address 0 should cause segfault.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Вт, 01 авг 2017, Jose Mario Quintana написал(а):
>>>>> 
>>>>>> A brief description of the Jx v1.0 extensions, together with links to a
>>>>>> Windows 64 bit dll, a Unix 64 bit so binaries and the patch
>>>>>> corresponding
>>>>>> to the J806 source can be found at,
>>>>>> http://www.2bestsystems.com/foundation/j/jx1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Summary
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Spelling
>>>>>>    - Names with unicode characters
>>>>>>    - Primitives
>>>>>>        Added     =.. =:: $:: [. ]. ]: ".. ":: `. ?: i.. O.
>>>>>>        Extended  ~ $.
>>>>>>    - Foreign
>>>>>>        Added     104!:5 Unnamed Execution
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Trains
>>>>>>      a v    Added       (different from Jx v0)
>>>>>>      a a    Extended    (different from Jx v0)
>>>>>>      c a    Resurrected
>>>>>>      a c a  Resurrected
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Jx v0 page,
>>>>>> http://www.2bestsystems.com/foundation/j/jx0
>>>>>> will be removed in the near future
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Time permitting, there will be soon a script with assertions for those
>>>>>> who
>>>>>> want to verify binaries targeted for other platforms and I will try to
>>>>>> illustrate the facilities in action with some scripts.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Jose Mario Quintana <
>>>>>> jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The patches, a Windows 32-bit DLL, a cheatsheet, 32 and 64 bit Unix
>>>>>>> libraries are found at:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://www.2bestsystems.com/foundation/j/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For more details and demonstration code, see the article in the
>>>>>>> Journal of
>>>>>>> J: http://journalofj.com/index.php/vol-2-no-2-october-2013 (only the
>>>>>>> definition of the new conjunction knot (`.) has been slightly
>>>>>>> modified for
>>>>>>> the release).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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