Pepe wrote:
> I just returned from a vacation in the Riviera Maya;
Ah, did you enjoy it? I'm headed there next month. Any tips?
> somehow I managed to miss your strand posts and
> I did not give you credit.
I'm not so worried about the credit, though I do like to see my name in
print, like anyone else (except celebrities). I was wondering if anyone
had realized strand notation was *possible* in J before I did, and if so I
was interested to read the historical context and maybe find other new
ideas.
> Having said that, although I like to give credit when I can,
> I think it is becoming more and more difficult to do so properly
> because of recurrent themes and the number of contributors.
Agreed, we are a very like-minded community. Also, the set of all short
programs is smaller than the set of all long programs, so we're bound to
see some repeats.
> Incidentally, have you considered using the empty string
> () as a marker since it is a neutral element under append.
Interesting thought. It's possible already, using the script I linked [1]:
'' 'Jose' 'Mario' 'Quintana' s''
+----+-----+--------+
|Jose|Mario|Quintana|
+----+-----+--------+
Aesthetically, I like it. The double-single-quote ('') is reminiscent of
double-quote ("), which acts nicely as a balanced marker, yet is a noun
(and, as you say, append's neutral).
> I know, I once mentioned to him that is was actually possible
> for an adverb to take another adverb or a conjunction as an
> argument and puff! It was gone.
Yeah, I've lost some fun toys that way. And actually I remember you
mentioning this. Do you have an actual expression that exploited this
loophole in an earlier version of J? Or was it just theoretical
(permitted by the DoJ, but not by the interpreter)? I would be excited to
see that.
> we could just start a very exclusive underground J club ;)
I'm up for it, but we need a name. The Fully Fixable Functional Faction?
-Dan
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