Dan Bron wrote:
> 'Sides, I'd be more impressed with someone who could make an
> arbitrary J sentence execute using a constant number of tokens...
Trivial to do with constant number of characters: write
J code which downloads and executes code from some other
location. Include a half dozen characters in the
url to select the particular bit of code to run and
you've the potential of far more applications than anyone
would want to see in forum posts.
> ... (without resorting to ". : or !:) ...
Excluding useful primitives makes things harder, but not
impossible. Consider, as an example of what can be done
without the presence of those three primitives:
({~ }.&.":) '* -.2|!/~i.8'
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Raul
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