Perhaps I was just being a little picky in the distinction. But the distinction between adverbs and conjunctions is important. It is similar to the distinction between monadic and dyadic verbs.
Sometimes I wonder what J would look like if verbs were not ambivalent. It could avoid some confusion for newbies, but would require more primitives. Difficult enough having to stick . and : after ASCII characters to build primitives because there are not enough ASCII characters to go around. Tie (`) is not really necessary as it is easily replaced. (;:'+ -') -: (+`-) 1 But it makes for neat expressions. (+`-)/1 2 3 0 (;:+ -)/1 2 3 |rank error | (;:+-)/1 2 3 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net>wrote: > Don said "Tie is not an adverb. It is a conjunction." I did not mean to > disparage tie but indicate that it is not necessary for table. I also > meant that t5 was "just a simple adverb". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
