And because the right argument might not be a noun (and might not be a verb).
-- Raul On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:40 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > =: is special because the lvalue (address) of the left argument is > used for evaluation. > > Чт, 20 ноя 2014, Sergey Kamenev написал(а): > > 20.11.2014 09:05, Jan-Pieter Jacobs пишет: > > >To give you a more direct reply: > > > > > >conjunctions, like & and @ work on either verbs or nouns. > > >=: and =. are neither, they are a special category called copula. > > > > > >I hope this clarifies. > > > > It is clear that the assignment is an exception to the rule. > > It is unclear why this was done. > > This violates universality. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
