I like Raul's style of thinking, comment rescinded. Best! -- Ian
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > I > On Jul 21, 2013 8:27 AM, "I.T. Daniher" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You can definitely build similar aliases in J - simply writing 'add =: +' > > will get you so far, but the right to left execution order confounds > > attempts to make truely human readable sentences, where left-to-right > > order is used. > > > > Like Raul, I disagree. I have become fluent enough in J that I naturally > read unfamiliar sentences from left to right, except for the glance to the > far right that may be needed to qualify whether the sentence as a whole is > a noun or a verb. Such reading favors general comprehension early on, with > details filled in as the sentence is completed. > > As a transition measure, when I've needed to read J sentences from right to > left I have, once I understood the sentence, then read it from left to > right. Repeated reading of a sentence with various scanning patterns builds > literacy, I've found. Another example is reading forks from inside, out, as > well as from the outside, in. As time goes on you may become less aware of, > or concerned with, the order in which you read. At least, that's been my > experience. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
