On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jose Mario
Quintana<[email protected]> wrote:
> Would a similar approach work to implement
> Neville's ideas?

I do not think so.

Consider:
   avg1=: +/ % #
   avg2=: [. % ].
   avg3=: f % g

if avg1 is a verb, and if avg2 would
be a conjunction, what would avg3 be,
and how could you tell?

Next, consider:

   1: + 2: * 3: - 4: % [. ^ 6:

If this train is an adverb, the
top level fork which has + for its
middle tine must be treated
differently than if the train were
a verb.  But neither of its other
"verbs" are [. nor ].

But let us say the following are
illegal:
   f=: [.
   g=: ].

This could avoid both of the above
difficulties -- unless we insisted
on using the mechanism which is used
to handle [:

That said, Neville has made lots of
suggestions, and some of my above
examples would not be allowed
with some of his suggestions.

-- 
Raul
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