In addition to Bill's answer, I'd like to mention that the following three steps strike me as central to reading J:
1. Resolve literal nouns, such as lists of numbers and quoted characters. 2. Resolve operators (adverbs and conjunctions) from left to right. (Except when the result is an operator, the result will be some combination of nouns and/or verbs.) 3. Resolve verbs from right to left. Tracy On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Hahn, Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Curiosity question: can more than two verbs be combined via "atop" for > use by "under"? How would that look in terms of parenthesization? > a...@b@c...@d or a@(b@(c...@d)) or ((a...@b)@c)@d or something else entirely? >... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
