The user might ask to prepend "NEW!" to any task that was created within the last week, and "URGENT!" to anything urgent. The result would be something like:
get a haircut
NEW! learn the charleston
URGENT! fix brakes
mow the lawn
Staircase columns
An example
Imagine the user wants to see, for every expression E on screen, a boolean indicating whether E is a task, and an integer indicating how many people enjoy E. This data could be displayed as:
/it #(is a) task
/count #enjoy /it
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y get a haircut
4 turtles
In general
To attach staircase columns k1 through kn to expressions e1 through en, the data would present as:
k1
k2
k3
...
kn
----------
e1
e2
...
en
In a boolean column, "false" should present as the empty string, and in an integer column, 0 should presents as the empty string.
Within-expression decorators
The user might ask to prepend "NEW!" to any task that was created within the last week, and "URGENT!" to anything urgent. The result would be something like:
Staircase columns
An example
Imagine the user wants to see, for every expression E on screen, a boolean indicating whether E is a task, and an integer indicating how many people enjoy E. This data could be displayed as:
In general
To attach staircase columns
k1throughknto expressionse1throughen, the data would present as:In a boolean column, "false" should present as the empty string, and in an integer column, 0 should presents as the empty string.