bill lam wrote:
> sequence of noun noun is already is a syntax error. Also how
> does it be extended to 5, 6 or more arguments?
You know, I never thought about it before, but it would be pretty easy to add
strand notation (noun juxtaposition ) to J, provided
we accept some enclosing syntax:
strand =: 2 : ' if. _. = m do. n else. strand (n,~<m) end.'
S =: strand ''
_. 'this' 'is' 'strand' 'notation' 0 a: (a.{~97+i.10) S
+----+--+------+--------+-+--+----------+
|this|is|strand|notation|0|++|abcdefghij|
| | | | | |||| |
| | | | | |++| |
+----+--+------+--------+-+--+----------+
Of course we could change the enclosing markers -- S is just a name, and _.
could be any noun, verb, or proverb. But we
should pick one that is unlikely for someone to want to include in the result
(or, in the case of a [pro]verb, one that someone is
unlikely to want to apply to the result).
It would also be easy to extend the utility to permit verbs and proverbs in the
strand notation (which would be included in the
result as their atomic representation).
-Dan
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