Another rabbit hole… This expression format is used throught the original Iverson/Hui Vocabulary, and I had always been bothered that I had to figure out what was going on before I could get much value from the Vocabulary examples. To investigate what I had missed long ago, I was in JHS, and used Help/Dictionary start going through the first pages, using “>>”.
At Intro 2: ----- 2. Ambivalence Cover the comments on the right and provide your own. 7-5 The function in the sentence 7-5 applies to two 2 arguments to perform subtraction, but in the … —— I selected >> and was susprised to see: ----- Intro 3. Verbs and Adverbs >> <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/dictionary/intro04.htm> >> << >> <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/dictionary/intro02.htm> >> Usr <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/user/contents.htm> >> Pri <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/primer/contents.htm> >> JfC <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/jforc/contents.htm> >> LJ <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/learning/contents.htm> >> Phr >> <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/phrases/contents.htm> >> Dic >> <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/dictionary/contents.htm> >> Voc >> <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm> >> !: <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/dictionary/xmain.htm> >> Help <safari-reader://localhost:65001/~addons/docs/help/index.htm> >> Dictionary 3. Verbs and Adverbs In the sentence %a of Section 2, the % “acts upon” a to produce a result, … —— including, but not shown here, wide margins and different formatting. It should have been obvious, but the difference was thet intro3 was was in Safari reader view, while the earlier pages were not. I have no idea why the selection changed; perhaps because there was something in my Safari browsing history that remembered that I had been there before? This caused my earlier confusion where I reported getting (what I thought was) an activity log of an earlier ijx session when I tried to restart from history; instead I had simply restarted in a Safari reader view, Now the thing that got me into that rabbit hole: where is this format: X exp1;exp2;exp3 Y first introduced and explained?? > On Dec 7, 2019, at 10:23 AM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lovely! Not at all obvious (to me)until you do it with simple verbs. > >> On Dec 7, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Jimmy Gauvin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> is the following what you want ? >> >> 1 2 3 (+ ; * ; -) 6 7 8 >> ┌──────┬───────┬────────┐ >> │7 9 11│6 14 24│_5 _5 _5│ >> └──────┴───────┴────────┘ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
