Nope. You're using them dyadically. When you embedded f and g in (... |.)"1 you made their context dyadic. That's a hook, and by definition, its left tine (in your case, f or g) is always invoked dyadically.
Protection from (or provision for) such contextual changes is actually one of the major motivations for using & (as in =&{: ). Maybe it's time to visit with & (and his conjunctival cousins, @: &. )? If for no other reason, then just because "J" is much easier than "easy J" (just like swimming downstream is much easier than swimming upstream). And more fun, too (ditto). -Dan Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:57 AM, "Linda Alvord" <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > I am using them monadically. > > Linda > > -----Original Message----- > From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com > [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of km > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 2:54 AM > To: programm...@jsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] stitching matrices > > Identical? > > f =: =&{: > g =: [:={: > 1 4 f 2 3 4 > 1 > 1 4 g 2 3 4 > |domain error: g > | 1 4 g 2 3 4 > > Kip Murray > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:11 AM, "Linda Alvord" <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> Here's a problem that bothers me about this example before I leave it. >> >> >> >> First establish that =&{: and [:={: are identical and compare tree >> and boxed versions: >> >> >> >> >> >> ]'A B'=:3|L:0(([:<i.)"1)3 5,:5 4 >> >> ----------T-------┐ >> │0 1 2 0 1│0 1 2 0│ >> │2 0 1 2 0│1 2 0 1│ >> │1 2 0 1 2│2 0 1 2│ >> │ │0 1 2 0│ >> │ │1 2 0 1│ >> L---------+-------- >> >> f=:=&{: >> >> g=:[:={: >> >> 5!:4 <'f' >> >> -- = >> -- & -+- {: >> >> 5!:4 <'g' >> >> -- [: >> --+- = >> L- {: >> >> B >> >> 0 1 2 0 >> 1 2 0 1 >> 2 0 1 2 >> 0 1 2 0 >> 1 2 0 1 >> >> f B >> >> 1 0 0 1 >> 0 1 0 0 >> 0 0 1 0 >> >> g B >> >> 1 0 0 1 >> 0 1 0 0 >> 0 0 1 0 >> >> >> >> Now look at two "trees": >> >> >> >> elm=: 13 :'((=&{:)|.)"1 y' >> >> oak=: 13 :'(([:={:)|.)"1 y' >> >> 5!:4 <'elm' >> >> -- = >> -- & -+- {: >> ----+- |. >> -- " -+- 1 >> >> 5!:4 <'oak' >> >> -- [: >> -----+- = >> ----+ L- {: >> -- " -+ L- |. >> L- 1 >> >> 5!:2 <'elm' >> >> --------------T-T-┐ >> │---------T--┐│"│1│ >> ││--T-T--┐│|.││ │ │ >> │││=│&│{:││ ││ │ │ >> ││L-+-+---│ ││ │ │ >> │L--------+---│ │ │ >> L-------------+-+-- >> >> 5!:2 <'oak' >> >> ---------------T-T-┐ >> │----------T--┐│"│1│ >> ││---T-T--┐│|.││ │ │ >> │││[:│=│{:││ ││ │ │ >> ││L--+-+---│ ││ │ │ >> │L---------+---│ │ │ >> L--------------+-+-- >> >> B >> >> 0 1 2 0 >> 1 2 0 1 >> 2 0 1 2 >> 0 1 2 0 >> 1 2 0 1 >> >> elm B >> >> 1 1 1 1 1 >> >> oak B >> >> ran with error: >> |domain error: oak >> | oak B >> |[-16] c:\users\owner\j701-user\temp\42.ij ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm