David Ward Lambert wrote: > NB. want essentially 2 adverb \ i.8 Unfortunately, J's grammar makes it difficult to slice-and-dice arguments to modifiers (adverbs and conjunctions). I'll have to think about it, but I think your:
> 2 (3 :'y adverb') \ i.8 is probably the best we can do (on the up side, it is clear and maintainable). -Dan PS: There's always the option of code generation, which would be "more" tacit than : , but you'd still (probably) have to quote 'adverb', which is the thing that's bothering us about the explicit approach (and you would also lose the clarity of your approach, so it'd be a net loss, IMO). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
