Good luck with your research Dan. I, for one, would be surprised, disappointed and very confused if the official meaning, in general, of "proverb" turns out to be "proverb, pro-adverb or pro-conjunction" whether or not it is defined or clearly implied by the DOJ or its related materials (and I would, more than ever, try to stay away from any pro-whatever as much as possible).
________________________________ From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:20:30 PM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Stacking by name I wrote: > This quote strengthens my argument: > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dfdot.htm > If x is the name of any entity (that is, a pronoun, > proverb, pro-adverb, or pro-conjunction) > PS: Search for "proverb" in each of the following: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict2.htm > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/samp03.htm > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/release/status.htm > See also the passage in > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm that reads: > unassigned name being treated as a verb Of course, only the DoJ counts as canonical for an implementation of J, but search also for proverb in Ken's "Exploring Math". http://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/expmath.pdf he doesn't explicitly say proverbs must be verbs, but from pages 28, 33, and 74, it's pretty clear that's what he intends. OK, now I should really stop posting my research material piecemeal, and should actually do the research. -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
