Because they would not work right if they were verbs. Verbs never find out the names of the things on the left of them.
That said, here are other examples of things which are not a verb and which take a left and right argument: ^: . : &. @ .. !: " @. Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > Both =: and =. seem to have a left and right argument and something > happens. The right argument is sent to the left argument. In Appendix E > of the Vocabulary, it is called as "Other" Why aren't they both verbs? > > Linda > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
