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What is "."? #60

Closed JeffreyBenjaminBrown closed 8 years ago

JeffreyBenjaminBrown commented 8 years ago

Per wiki/Commands, "." applied to a list is the dequote operator. But I can also apply it to the number 3. If I apply it to a list, it prints the list. If I apply it to 3, it does not show the 3. Does "." mean something else for numbers? Is it defined for other kinds of things too?

JeffreyBenjaminBrown commented 8 years ago

It's even weirder! There are four possible expressions you can make out of a 3, a "cheese" and maybe a trailing dot. Three of them evaluate:

45) "cheese" 3 [1] "cheese" 3 46) "cheese" 3. 47) 3 "cheese" [1] 3 "cheese"

The last does not:

48) 3 "cheese". net.fortytwo.ripple.RippleException: argument is not a key/value pair: 3

I looked for words like key and value in Wiki/Commands and didn't find it. Am I overlooking some other introductory document?

joshsh commented 8 years ago

See answer at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/semantic-synchrony/1ykJc4LpCC0