[Jprogramming] Report of the J Wiki meeting of July 14th, 2022

2022-07-18 Thread 'robert therriault' via Programming
Present: Art Anger, Bob Therriault 1) Bob reported that he had set up a page for new developments in the new wiki. Currently it has content of Raul's index work and some work that Bob has done on creating navigation bars that would supply breadcrumb navigation on each page. 2) The breadcrumb

Re: [Jprogramming] LaTeX question: J-boxed display

2022-07-18 Thread 'Viktor Grigorov' via Programming
Thanks for the responses. Hauke Rehr, I do enjoy exploration of approaches to a problem. Ewart Shaw, your J-to-TeX is very impressive, although parameters for boxes require some tweaking mysides at least. Keeping files separate requires thinking about names and disallows quick edits, but keeps

Re: [Jprogramming] LaTeX question: J-boxed display

2022-07-18 Thread Hauke Rehr
I agree. (late to the party, I’ve been away for about a week) My first approach would have been to let J provide not only the boxed display (a string) with | replaced by space but also the tree structure and shapes of representations in boxes. `$@":` Then I’d first print the contents with lines

Re: [Jprogramming] Problem with adverbs

2022-07-18 Thread Hauke Rehr
An adverb only evaluates once it is given a noun/verb left argument. (adverb adverb) is a form of speech that doesn’t get evaluated, just like verbal trains (verb verb verb) Put another way: what shall 'u' be in advsuc when you say 'advsuc applyto1'? 'u' always comes in from the left but there

Re: [Jprogramming] Problem with adverbs

2022-07-18 Thread Raul Miller
In an adverb definition, u refers to a verb (or noun). I hope this helps, -- Raul On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:03 AM Jacques Bailhache wrote: > > I define an adverb which gives the successor of its argument : > >advsuc =: 1 : '>: u' >1 advsuc > 2 > > Then I define an adverb which applies

[Jprogramming] Problem with adverbs

2022-07-18 Thread Jacques Bailhache
I define an adverb which gives the successor of its argument : advsuc =: 1 : '>: u' 1 advsuc 2 Then I define an adverb which applies its argument to 1 : applyto1 =: 1 : '1 u' Then I apply it to the adverbial successor : advsuc applyto1 advsuc applyto1 Why isn't it evaluated to 2