[Jprogramming] Nested structures. Idioms? Combinators?

[bill lam]

Even J language allows infinite primitives, the current implementation
limit is only 128.  That said , there should still be some vacancies if one
really want add one.
On Feb 12, 2016 7:51 PM, <neitzel at gaertner.de> wrote:

> Matthew Baulch wrote:
> >
> > You're probably right that an ASCII name of its own would be better.
> > Not many primitive names available, it seems. Oh well.
>
> Infinitely many J primitive names are available.
> From <http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict1.htm>, [emphasis mine]:
>
>         A primitive or primary may be denoted by a single graphic
>         (such as + for plus) or by a graphic modified by ONE OR MORE
>         following inflections (a period or colon), as in +. and +:
>         for or and nor. A primary may also be an inflected name, as in
>         e. and o. for membership and pi times.
>
> This was a concious design decision.  There are already primitives with
> more than one inflections [exercise: find them], which were added in
> later times to the language.  The Words ;: scanner tokenizes according
> to this rule, too.
>
> So: it would be no problem to place new primitives at, say,
>
>                 ".:.:.
>
>                 "::.
>
> and call them CamelDo and PoodleDo, most easily to remember.
>
>                                                         Martin
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