Please ignore my "wondering" comments from my previous post. I have reviewed the parsing rules and cannot imagine how the old tridents could be reintroduced as isolated sequences if the executions in the parsing parsing stack are confined to the first four elements only and I cannot imagine the consequences of changing the four to five.
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Brian Schott wrote: + Thinking back to the era when the many other trains + (sequences?) were defined in J and then were removed, I now + wonder if they were time-consuming and awkward to manage + because they did not have to be isolated sequences. I am not + suggesting that requiring isolation would be desirable, but + wonder whether in cases when they arre isolated, would it be + practical to reintroduce their functionality to J? I have no + idea if this would work or be desirable, but I do miss them. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
