Neville Homes. Do you have a link to the example where more than two arguments is important? (Sorry if it is already in the thread). Regards, Bo.
--- Den søn 26/7/09 skrev neville holmes <[email protected]>: > Fra: neville holmes <[email protected]> > Emne: Re: [Jprogramming] Third argument > Til: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> > Dato: søndag 26. juli 2009 00.40 > Tracy Harms wrote: > > > In my attempts to understand the core concepts > > on which J depends I've developed a strong opinion > > that two is a natural maximum for arguments, and > > attempts to alter the language to exceed that would > > fail in a big way. > > Two points here: > > 0. My motivation for [. and ]. were specifically > related to tacit coding and arose when I was trying > to teach tacit coding a decade or so ago (see my > teaching material presently appearing in Vector) > and realised they would be extremely helpful. > > 1. My suggestion would not directly introduce the > possibility of third and fourth arguments. This > only arises because & can take a nominal operand. > > As Raul Miller pointed out, [. and ]. would be > verbs and would actually bring in operands. Any > tacit expression containing ]. would define a > conjunction, otherwise an adverb if containing > a [. . > > (It seems to me that there would be interesting > consequent possibilities in the use of gerunds > in operands, but this is merely a transient > speculation.) > > I hope this explanation will clarify some of the > questions raised by other contributors. > > Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. > Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ___________________________________________________________ Skal du købe ny bil? Sammenlign priser på brugte biler med Kelkoo og find et godt tilbud! - Se mere her http://dk.yahoo.com/r/pat/mmb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
