Once these hypothetical Old Syntax pages exist, and are in good shape, adding navigation from relevant old pages should be fine.
Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 5:15 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > You make good sense, but no one will read the Old Syntax pages unless > told to. The obsolete articles need to have a pointer to the Old Syntax > page. > > Henry Rich > > On 9/21/2021 5:09 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > We can learn a lot from history, though sometimes finding the relevant > > bits can be discouraging. > > > > Here, probably what we need is a NuVoc treatment of > > https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm > > > > Currently, it seems to me, we have stuff like > > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Parsing and > > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/GerundsAndAtomicRepresentation > > and, of course, https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/semico but > > we do not have anything analogous to the parsing and execution page of > > the dictionary. > > > > Structurally, that part of the system probably has at least three > > layers. There's the lexical layer (word formation) represented by ;: > > but we sort of have another layer now used in the context of explicit > > definitions, which handles the nested {{ }} stuff. And, on top of > > that, there's the grammatical layer which deals with sentence > > formation (described concisely in the dicte.htm page). And it's the > > history of sentence formation which we are grappling with here. > > > > Once upon a time, we had something like a fork rule that went: edge > > cavn cavn cavn and this handled conjunctions in a variety of ways that > > are no longer supported (I think because of their lack of utility and > > the esoteric pressure they created). And, for this issue, perhaps we > > could use an "Obsolete Syntax" page which documents examples of each > > of those cases, and viable alternatives which are still supported. > > > > Am I making sense here? Or am I talking crazy? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
