Re: [Jprogramming] Expositional tacit

2019-12-09 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Perfect! "Junctions" they are. Thank you, Roger. > On Dec 9, 2019, at 1:41 AM, Roger Hui wrote: > > "Tacit definition", "tacit programming", etc. originated with Ken Iverson, > and first appeared in the 1991 paper *Tacit Definition* > . Before t

Re: [Jprogramming] Expositional tacit

2019-12-08 Thread Roger Hui
"Tacit definition", "tacit programming", etc. originated with Ken Iverson, and first appeared in the 1991 paper *Tacit Definition* . Before that, phrases like +/, +@*/ were called "operator expressions" and were commonly used at IPSA in the 1980s. Th

[Jprogramming] Expositional tacit

2019-12-08 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Never having seen a name for Ken and Roger's official dictionary's expression format: X (exp1;...;expn) y I am going to use the subject phrase, at least until someone corrects me. Thanks to Jimmy Gauvin (and Brian), I now understand that this cryptic format used throughout the dictionary is a (