See also http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Capped%20Fork
----- Original Message ----- From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:57 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Third argument To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jose Mario > Quintana<[email protected]> wrote: > > ... if I am not mistaken, the introduction of Cap involved a > > modification of the previous execution of a fork to allow a > > specific verb ([:) to have a side effect, as an adverb, on the > > middle verb of a fork. > > I think you are mistaken. > > Consider [: % *: > > Before the introduction of cap's special treatment during > parsing, the > TRIDENT parsing handler would have formed a fork from these > three verbs. > > [: has no side effect -- in fact it never does anything -- and > in this > context, it is nothing but information. > > Also, no J adverbs are involved here (except in analogies). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
