"growing" is a gerund.

-- 
Raul

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The concept of using adverbs makes sense, and they are handy. I can't say as 
> much for gerunds. I move around a lot growing up and I missed parts of speech 
> and had double doses of many other things.
>
> Linda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com 
> [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ric Sherlock
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 11:34 PM
> To: programm...@jsoftware.com
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Why the length error?
>
> When you say you "have no problem with /B" , do you mean that you don't have 
> a conceptual problem with it , or that you don't get a syntax error when you 
> execute it?
> On Oct 5, 2012 4:24 PM, "Linda Alvord" <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I have no trouble with  /B  so I guess the problem is just writing adverbs.
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com [mailto:
>> programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Linda Alvord
>> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 11:09 PM
>> To: programm...@jsoftware.com
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Why the length error?
>>
>> I've been avoiding adverbs, but maybe it's time to ....
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com [mailto:
>> programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ric Sherlock
>> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:49 PM
>> To: programm...@jsoftware.com
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Why the length error?
>>
>> Raul has already shown how to use under but here is my original one
>> using it too:
>>    rad=: (#~ [: -. 0 , 2 -:/\ ])&.|: :: ]
>>
>> However I like the ifany approach better in this case
>>    rad=: (#~ [: -. 0 , 2 -:/\ ])&.|: ifany
>>    rad B
>>
>> The reason that ( ifany B ) gives a syntax error is because ifany is
>> an adverb not a verb and therefore expects a verb to its left.
>>    type 'ifany'
>> ┌──────┐
>> │adverb│
>> └──────┘
>>
>> You will get the same error if you execute ( / B )
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Linda Alvord
>> <lindaalv...@verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Ric,  Is there a way to modify your function so the result of  rad B
>> > will
>> > be:
>> >
>> > 3 5 4
>> > 2 1 6
>> >
>> > Linda
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