Thanks David. Very apposite.
I'm trying to do a task analysis of using NuVoc. This is all grist for
the mills. More please, from other novices?
Until I've finished the analysis i don't know the answers to these
questions. I have feelings about them, but feelings are not answers.
Something certainly needs to be done about how valence is treated. I
don't know what.
And yes-- repertoire of potential errors, and why, is a big ought-to.
Maybe too hard for us all at this stage?
Ian
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:24 AM, David Ward Lambert
<b49p23t...@stny.rr.com> wrote:
> Novice wishes from an accessible dictionary.
>
>
> 0) Will the accessible dictionary help me understand errors? For
> example, "Why does this raise domain error instead of dividing by three
> the result after evaluating a polynomial?"
>
> r2 =: %&3 @ _1 2&p.
>
>
> 1) This sentence about `agenda' in the dictionary: "The case m...@.v uses
> the result of the verb v to perform the selection." leaves me asking
> "v called with which arguments?", and I worry, "Am I restricted to
> monadic v?". The prior sentence about boxing and parenthesizing is so
> nebulous that it doesn't concern me. Examples \textit{must} follow.
>
>
>
> And I also comment that you ought to consider downplaying valence. The
> functions have natural names and valences.
>
> I want to compare? Then I need two things.
> I want to box something? One thing.
>
> I want a logarithm? One thing. Oh, it's a natural log. OK.
> Change the base? Two things. OKay.
>
> Understanding valence in trains is a separate concern. I enjoy the data
> flow diagrams and have developed other methods to understand trains.
>
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