Re: [Jprogramming] an intro to double adverbs

2015-01-29 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
An adverb can also take a fixed number of arguments or even a variable number of arguments using a sentinel (a good use of [:) in the same fashion. Moreover, the adverb can be defined tacitly and it is not too difficult if one is willing to come to the dark side ;) See the adverbs sna and Recur d

[Jprogramming] an intro to double adverbs

2015-01-28 Thread 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
A conjunction that parses both its parameters on the left, I call a double adverb. It is fairly easy to convert any named conjunction to use this parsing, and it has several neat properties. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/PascalJasmin/double%20adverbs%20vs%20conjunctions ---