On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> That's an interesting point: vocalizing forks and hooks.
>...
> Now with that convention, we read
> f=: [: %: [: +/ *:
> f is root of sum of squares.
I find reading (or writing) a train easier after appending "of"
to most monadic verbs:
f =: [: %: [: +/ *:
"f is the root_of the (sum over) squares"
Reading "the" for [: has been mentioned on the forum before,
and "sum over" for +/ is a nice colloquialism!
Reading & writing J left-to-right is a (Dijkstra approved?)
top-down approach - mainly used by myself to find out the
"real" meaning of the verb I've just created right-to-left!
-- Ewart Shaw
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