---Richard.Vaughan wrote: > Ric, I read through the whole thread and I think you were hoping for a > reference in the J documentation to the parsing rules for > trains involving conjunctions.
Actually I think I was more focused on noun, adverb combinations, but since conjunctions form adverbs they are also implicated. > Chapter 15 of "LJ" (Learning J, by Roger Stokes) covers > this, and explains why the noun argument to a (V C) bident is > on the left but produces the same verb result as V C (noun) > in ordinary execution. I had similar difficulty with the > syntax of chains other than verb hooks and > forks until I came upon this reference. Yes that looks like it will help, I will study it more closely. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
