David Mitchell wrote:
>  I found these pages helpful as well as the excellent references above:
>  http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/parsing_and_execution_ii.htm

Wow, I really need to review J for C Programmers.  It's a gold mine.  Look:

>  Avoid using the parameter names x, y, u, v, m, and n 
>  ... when an explicit definition is running, those names 
>  are always evaluated before they are put onto the stack 
>  (in other words, they are passed by value rather than 
>  by name, even if they are verbs).  Therefore, they 
>  produce value error if they are undefined when used.

and I was citing some old J Forum post!

-Dan
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