Dan, wonderful!
On Feb 8, 2010, at 4:30 PM, "Dan Bron" <j...@bron.us> wrote: > Ric wrote: >> My advice to all interested is: Don't be afraid to get it wrong, >> put something up! > > Ok, I decided to pick a "weirder" primitive, tie (`). I was > inspired by a discussion with Tracy a couple days back. What I > realized is we almost never see ` out of context. That is, its > results are always anonymous, and always immediately fed to another > primitive, with wonderful and mysterious results. > > Because of this, ` gives the impression of being wonderful and > mysterious, when in fact it is a humble little conjunction (it's > really just , in disguise). So I thought it would be a fun > candidate for re-documentation: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/backtick > > Now, I embrace the Wiki spirit. Please, edit away. This includes > both content and formatting (I am not married to any format; but > I do like the idea of giving "mnemonics" for the spellings of > primitives, to make them easier to recall and rationalize). > > But one thing I would like to ask is that we present a definition > both accessible *and* comprehensive. That is our only option, if > we really want to create a primary reference (so one doesn't have to > don't have to "fall back" onto the official DoJ if he doesn't > want to). > > -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
