I have a big problem with this: I have no idea what you think you are saying.
Taken literally, it looks like a request to merge https://github.com/andrimne/JWithATwist/blob/master/JWithATwist/Parser.fs (and some other parts of that repo) into J. But I do not know what problems this would solve that would justify this kind of massive change to the language. In my mind, "J's syntax" means the grammatical rules which a computer follows when evaluating sentences. Specifically, the rules laid out at http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm Clearly, your change would require rewriting those rules in some fashion, and you seem to agree. Your sentence "It should not be possible to have tacit-t expressions within tacit-v expressions." suggests that those rules would be abandoned when running your code instead. But what are your new rules? J already struggles with documentation issues: We do need examples to supplement more formal documentation. But that does not mean that examples without that more formal documentation is going to make anything easier to understand. Meanwhile, your "it's not clear" clauses in this proposal, suggest that you have not really thought through what kind of syntax rules you are proposing. It's like you do not understand what J's syntax is. How would the dictionary have to change, to document the changes you are proposing? Or, if this is not really about J programming (and it might not be), perhaps this kind of thing really belongs in the chat forum? Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all ! > > I entered a request for tacit expressions with explicit J syntax. > > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Interpreter/Requests#Tacit_expressions_with_explicit_J_syntax > > I use J only for fun so I am not going to finance development, but maybe > others want to. As I see it it would solve most of the problems we struggle > with daily since 20 years or something. > > Cheers, > > Erling Hellenäs > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
