I thought I'd seen an error defining a verb within a verb when I wrote 'turns out it cannot. ' I am unable to replicate that error.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 3:29 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Parsing blunder. Something as simple as > > 'aa' =: \ > > fails. Will be fixed in next beta/release. > > I don't understand 'turns out it cannot'. Are you reporting an error here? > > I cannot find a problem with ". on non-noun producing non-empty. Please > give a testcase. > > Henry Rich > > On 8/16/2016 2:08 PM, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Given: > > > > def > > 2 : 0 > > (m)=: n : y > > 'done' > > ) > > > > 'verb'def 3 'y- 10' > > done > > > > 'adv' def 1 'u\ y' > > |syntax error > > | (m)=:n :y > > > > 'conj'def 2 '(u y)+ (v y)' > > |syntax error > > | (m)=:n :y > > > > I saw this problem when J805 beta first released, but I don't like > > reporting something that requires lots of code. Rewriting it this way > made > > me wonder if a verb could not create a verb. It turns out it cannot. > > > > In trying to find a workaround, I also discovered that ". doesn't provide > > an empty if the result is not a noun. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Paul 650-766-1863 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
