https://wiki.nars2000.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Null 2026-05-08T08:17:05Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.38.7 https://wiki.nars2000.org/index.php?title=Null&diff=142&oldid=prev 2008-04-10T15:25:24Z

<p>New page: The monadic operator null (&lt;apll&gt;⊙&lt;/apll&gt;) is used to aid in resolving ambiguities with slash/slope as a function/operator. That is, if the parser has trouble with a phrase using slash/...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The monadic operator null (&lt;apll&gt;⊙&lt;/apll&gt;) is used to aid in resolving ambiguities with slash/slope as a function/operator.<br /> <br /> That is, if the parser has trouble with a phrase using slash/slope where you mean that symbol to be a function, but the parser interprets it as an operator, or worse yet signals a &lt;apll&gt;SYNTAX ERROR&lt;/apll&gt;, try using the Null operator.<br /> <br /> For example, in &lt;apll&gt;L+//R&lt;/apll&gt; the interpreter parses the lefthand slash as an operator whose derived function is &lt;apll&gt;+/&lt;/apll&gt;. If you mean that symbol to be a function, use &lt;apll&gt;L+/⊙/R&lt;/apll&gt; which forces the lefthand slash to be interpreted as a function. Alternatively, that line could be written as &lt;apll&gt;L+(//R)&lt;/apll&gt;.</div>

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