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From: weg@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Eythan Weg)
Subject: Re: Seek examples of lev and dex
In-Reply-To: vpcsc4@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu's message of Sun, 11 Apr 1993 19:30:21 GMT
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In article <1993Apr11.193021.13364@csus.edu> vpcsc4@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Emmett McLean) writes:

   If you prefer looking at a specific example, how can s below be
   defined tacitly?

      9!:3(5)                         NB. for nice displays
      s =. '%&x. @ (] - &y. -&x.)':2  NB. Assign s as a conjunction
      b =. 3 s 5                      NB. Use s to create verb b
      b                               NB. Look at b
   %&3@(] -&5 -&3)

Try
	s1=.'%&x. @ (] - &y. -&x.)':22

I see this translator also as a teacher.  I often wondered if its
scope is exhaustive.  If it is, one does not need to learn the
semantics of trains of conjuctions and/or adverbs.  A related question
has to do with the quality of the translation, which may bear on the
previous conclusion.  Is it optimal in some sense?

Eythan

