dly wrote:
> So an operator is a special type of adverb, a function that acts on
> other function to produce a new function?
>

Ken Iverson described an operator as "sn entity that applies to a function
to produce a related derived function" and credited Heaviside's D as his
inspiration.  Of course operators are functions in some general sense:
howver, they are called adverbs in J and are sytactically different from
verbs.

Best wishes,

John

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