I don't see whether you clearly answered wether ;: will parse {{ as a single
token. I am suggesting that it probably should, if a string containing {{ ever
has an imaginable need to be processed. I understand if "{{." is not
tokenized, or tokenized as '{{';,'.'
On Monday, October 19, 2020, 10:34:03 a.m. EDT, Henry Rich
<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think I suggested that. Word formation is where quoted strings
are detected.
Henry Rich
On 10/19/2020 10:24 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
>> {{ }} will be used in a step between word formation and parsing
> You're suggesting here that there will NEVER be a use/occasion to see a
> string that contains these new characters with a need to interpret them how J
> would. If such a raw string might be useful, then modifying some of the
> tokens it contains could as well.
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> On Monday, October 19, 2020, 09:26:30 a.m. EDT, Henry Rich
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> {{. etc will NOT be defined as single words.
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> {{ }} will be used in a step between word formation and parsing, and
> will never be seen in parsing. I don't think it matters much whether
> {{. is defined as a word or not. The state table for word recognition
> is the same size either way.
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> Henry Rich
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> On 10/18/2020 11:01 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
>> Both are possible, but existing state machine requires fewer new entries if
>> }}. is not a defined token.
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>> On Sunday, October 18, 2020, 10:20:59 p.m. EDT, Raul Miller
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> That would be the simplest implementation (and it's kind of critical
>> if code which uses ;: to manipulate j expressions should be expected
>> to continue to work).
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>> Me, I'm wondering if this means that }}: and }}. will be treated as
>> single words. It seems like that should be the case (because otherwise
>> it gets harder to explain to rules for : and . in reserved words), but
>> I do not know enough about where things stand.
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>> Thanks,
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