[Jprogramming] verb that reads from mathematical notation?

[EelVex]

Hi bob,
that's the problem (I think I was not clear): I want to read the output
from another program that makes symbolic calculations and I don't want to
have to read huge expressions just to parenthesise them correctly.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:31 PM, bob therriault <bobtherriault at mac.com>wrote:

> Hi Eelvex,
>
> I think that the monadic primitive Do (".) may be the answer, although you
> would need to use parenthesis to get the order of execution that you would
> like.
>
>    a=.2
>    b=.3
>    ".'a*b+b*a'
> 18
>    ".'(a*b)+b*a'
> 12
>
> Cheers, bob
>
> On 2013-08-01, at 9:22 AM, EelVex wrote:
>
> > Is there a verb in the library to read "paper math" into J expressions?
> >
> > Eg.
> >   a =: 2
> >   b =: 3
> >   read 'a * b + b * a'
> > 12
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