On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Viktor Cerovski <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul Miller-4 wrote: >> It appears that a verb phrase is something typically built >> from adverbs and/or conjunctions,[...] >> > Well, according to "the left argument of an adverb or conjunction > is the entire verb phrase that precedes it", why would not verb > phrase just as well be a noun, like in: > > 1&f
It could be, but that would illustrate a different issue. >> [...] and that hooks and >> forks are not verb phrases unless they are contained in >> parenthesis. >> > That's an interesting observation. Let's follow it a bit: in the expression > > (u v)/ > > the verb phrase is indeed (u v). Nevertheless, the expression: > > (u v) > > being a hook, is not a verb phrase. I see no need to make this distinction. > This way one could stop using hooks and forks altogether > and program only with verb phrases. We already know that hooks and forks are a convenience and not necessary to the language. Hook could have been implemented using a conjunction and fork could have been implemented using and adverb which produces a conjunction. I am pretty sure that I have posted example implementations of this in the past. (Though working around bugs in 5!:5 have made my examples a bit more complicated than I would have liked.) -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
