# K for Joy Programmers (paper)

## stevan apter — 2003-05-31 16:40:36

    the first few sections of this paper are finished, although i

    hope to expand the examples.  this covers the verbs and adverbs.

    i hope to complete the next section, on indexing and amend, over

    the next few days.  a further section on dictionary and table

    programming is probably also warranted.

    http://www.nsl.com/papers/k.htm

## John Hodge — 2003-05-31 19:21:35

    --- In concatenative@yahoogroups.com, "stevan apter" <sa@n...> wrote:

     > the first few sections of this paper are finished, although i

    > hope to expand the examples.  this covers the verbs and adverbs.

    > i hope to complete the next section, on indexing and amend, over

    > the next few days.  a further section on dictionary and table

    > programming is probably also warranted.

    >

    > http://www.nsl.com/papers/k.htm

     Extremely interesting, so far.  The strengths of Joy and K seem to

    amplify each other.

    The only aspect of cK that perplexes me is the definition of find:

    wouldn't it be better to return 'I' when find fails?  What can one do

    with an integer index one greater than the size of the vector

    searched?