>  ;:  'You can"t depend upon it'

Really?  My English dictionary lists neither 

   "

nor

   t

as words :)  And even if it did, how many of his clients do you think Thomas is 
going to convince to type  'can"t'  instead of  'can''t'?  

Of course, you could work around this with string replacement and 
transformations, but by the time you handle all the special cases, you'd have 
been better off using  ;.  or dyad  ;:  anyway.

This isn't a problem with  ;:  .  The monad wasn't designed to parse English, 
it was designed to parse J.  It's just that J stole the English word for "word" 
(just like it stole "verb", "noun", etc).

-Dan

PS:  Because of the J IDE's syntax coloring, when I write a multiline comment 
using  0 :0  instead of multiple  NB.  , I backticks  `  in place of 
apostrophes (unpaired single quotes).  So I would've given your example as  

   You can`t depend upon it



----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Reply via email to