Raul wrote:
>  We could create a fork adverb (which returned a
>  conjunction which creates a fork).
>    x (f g F h) y
>      (f g F h) y
>
>I   suspect that long verb trains such as
>   (a b c d e f g h) y
>  would require parenthesis, but have not worked
>  through any examples recently, to be sure of this.

A bit deeper into one of the threads I cited earlier:

Erling Hellenäs writes (A):
>  Or you could have some special syntax: ( x y z F: ) for a fork, for
> example.

and Roger responds (B):
>  So, instead of writing  (f + g + h + v), you'd write
>  (f + (g  + (h + v F:) F:) F:) .  I fail to see why the
>  latter is better.

I agree with Roger.  Special quoting parens, like  (:):  might be different.

-Dan

(A)  http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2006-January/026311.html
(B)  http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2006-January/026312.html
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