nilad works today. It displays the definition of the verb nilad is an option in APL to execute a function and I think it is one of the improvements made going for J and was a deliberate choice and I am pretty sure it will not be considered as an improvement to change that.
Having a utility to display some sort of info made in scripts/verbs made with certain kinds of NB. combination might be interesting and useful. 2011/10/30 Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > Could we add "nilad" for zero-valence verbs? > > Don Guinn posted< > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.j.programming/16701>an > easy way to do this: > > NB. Stresses that this verb ignores its y > nilad=: monad > > Or, if we really wanted to adopt nilad at the compiler level, we could > raise a domain error when the coder tries to pass a value to a nilad. > > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 twitter: @flugfiskur http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
