On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:21 PM ethiejiesa via Programming <[email protected]> wrote: > > What would it emit instead? > Words that just happen to contain spaces. > > I just realized, however, that my original email example lets > number words contain trailing spaces. So, I agree that the cell "0 > 5" in the state table needs to be what it is. However, if we're in > state num and encounter a quote or "other" character, I still don't > grok why ev (emit vector) is used instead of em (emit). Is there a > case where we have a number token containing a quote character, or > likewise for "other" characters?
ev() just lets the machine use meta-states (with other states as "sub-states"). Remember, also that some verbs begin with numeric characters (0: for example). Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
