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?