On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:11 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming <[email protected]> wrote: > ... it is extremely unlikely that you want to use !. with a "random" > verb, and so a sentence would be tied closely to !., and its likely > that the sentence was not intended.
Yes. Imagine a discussion of the behavior of this code if !. was defined to work on the contents of named verbs: rot=:|. shi=: rot!._1 _3 shi 7#11 shi=: rot = p. _1 shi 2 3 5 ... Ultimately, at some point, there's a judgement call involved where the language designer and implementer has to ask what the use of a feature is. Also, if there does turn out to be a use, there tends to be less code you have to worry about breaking, when you turn an error case into a working case than when you change the behavior of something that used to work. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
