Long before J division in mathematics is backwards. On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:50 AM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
