On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Wendell P <[email protected]> wrote: > With its more complex semantics, I doubt that J's syntax could be much > simpler than it is, though some of the periods and colons do seem > superfluous.
The periods and colons you are probably referring to are an ascii approximation of diacritical marks. Basically, though, they are just word forming (or token forming) characters. If you expect them to be something more than that, I imagine you would be disappointed. And, on a related note: ascii is ugly. But pervasively available. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
