I have been occasionally scanning some of the emails
on this subject and have a question (or three): Why
has "thesaurus" not been suggested (before this) as
an appropriate name ? Or have I missed something ?
Is "thesaurus" so wildly inappropriate ?
On a slightly different aspect, I would suggest that
the J documentation, particularly the thesaurus, treat
the old terminology of functions/arguments and
operators/operands as being a worthwhile alternative
to the nouns, verbs, adverbs and conjunctions terminology.
Perhaps because I started with APL when it was sometimes
called "box notation", I have never been comfortable
with J's natural language analogy, and have felt it
to be more complex than the older terminology, and
the analogy somewhat flawed.
Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria
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