Okay, it’s back to the thread’s subject. Fine. Talkig about grammar (which J does care about): F: is a conjunction. In terms of higher order functions, we could say it takes two functions and returns another one defined in terms of them. The most intuitive thing would then be to change as little as possible, keeping order of inputs intact, just as other conjunctions and adverbs do.
F: is not special enough to be the odd one amoung its cousins. If you want a language where you need to remember which of @ @: & &: changes the order of input, try a masochist’s language like malbolge Sure we could define ^: to feed x and y into v the other way around. But that actually is very counterintuitive. And it’s no better with F: Or so do I think. Am 22.02.21 um 14:34 schrieb Henry Rich: > I don't agree about the inuitiveness of the order of v. -- ---------------------- mail written using NEO neo-layout.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
