That amounts to creating a new part of speech. You want (2 : ' "v ') to
accept a single noun/verb right operand. The parse table doesn't have
anything like that.
Henry Rich
On 8/29/2020 12:50 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
It is already possible/convenient to write an adverb that returns an adverb. Often the
returned adverb can be tacit. An advantage is that the first binding of the adverb
"compiles"/preparses the 2nd adverb application. The full binding expression
is a double adverb (u2 u1 a). The disadvantage of double adverbs is that it is
inconvenient to partially bind u2 without yet knowing u1.
If the proposal "let explicit conjunctions that mention v/n without u/m (or x or y)
return a tacit adverb upon being bound with v" then the compiling/preparsing
advantage exists while retaining full partial binding simplicity.
Examples
2 : ' "v' 1 NB. compiled tacit with single parameter.
"1
u1 (u2 2: ' "v') NB. no tacit advantage, but simple partial binding semantics.
u2"u1
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