Little typo in wiki/Vocabulary/Glossary

[Roland Senn]

In https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Glossary#Agenda I read:

> A verbencapsulated in agerundmay be extracted and activated as
specified by use of theAgendaadverb.

Clicking on `Agenda` it says :

> m @. n | Agenda | Conjunction.

Glossary says `Adverb`, Vocabulary says `Conjunction`. I think, the
glossary is wrong.

[Henry Rich]

You are right.  More important, the definition of 'Agenda' was imprecise
& I have removed it. And, @. needs a better name.

A gerund is the noun form of a verb.  The m operand in m@.v is an
/agenda/ (literally 'things to be done').  @. itself should be named
something like 'Execute From Agenda'.  Can anyone think of better words?

Henry Rich

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[Clifford Reiter]

A look at a thesaurus for "evaluate" includes "assay" which to me suggests "find a value of something taking into account multiple facts"

[Martin Kreuzer]

How about 'Exec-Pick' or simply 'Pick' ?
-M

At 2024-08-08 14:17, you wrote:

>You are right. More important, the definition

>of 'Agenda' was imprecise & I have removed it. And, @. needs a better name.
>

>A gerund is the noun form of a verb. The m

>operand in m@.v is an /agenda/ (literally

>'things to be done'). @. itself should be
>named something like 'Execute From Agenda'. Can anyone think of better words?

[Henry Rich]

Not 'Exec-Pick', because m@.n only selects a gerund for execution, it
doesn't actually execute it.

Not 'Pick' or my suggestion 'Select', since m@.v /does/ execute,
potentially on multiple verbs.

'Assay' measures against a standard, not quite right here.

How about 'Use Agenda'?

Henry Rich

[Devon McCormick]

Maybe "chooser" or "selector"?

--

Devon McCormick, CFA

Flâneur

[Devon McCormick]

"Use agenda" is a bit awkward but may be best, unless you'd like to make up a new word like "agendanator".

--

Devon McCormick

Flâneur

[Henry Rich]

Following Ken's penchant for Latin borrowings, in m@.v m would be the Agenda and @. the /agens agendorum/ (the one who is doing the agenda) or /actor agendorum/ (the one whose job is to do the agenda).  English forms are

Agent
Actor

In the sense of 'move an item on the agenda' (parliamentary), you could have

Mover

Of all these, I like Agent best.

Henry Rich

[Devon McCormick]

"Agent" is good because of the etymology and pedagogically because of the similarity to "agenda".

[Henry Rich]

Exactly.  The agent performs the agenda.  Going once...

Henry Rich

[Elijah Stone]

cute. i like it

[Clifford Reiter]

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