I wrote: "Orthodox verbs, explicit verbs in particular, can only take nouns and produce nouns; in contrast, tacit wicked verbs can take words and "
Actually, explicit verbs (even if they should not) can take any kind of words as arguments when the sentences in the verb's body are syntactically correct. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Jose Mario Quintana < jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> wrote: > Orthodox verbs, explicit verbs in particular, can only take nouns and > produce nouns; in contrast, tacit wicked verbs can take words and produce > words of any kind (use them at your own risk). For example, > > 9!:14'' > j701/2011-01-10/11:25 > > o=. @: > ar=. 5!:1@< > Cloak=. (0:`)(,^:) > Cloak=. (ar'Cloak')Cloak > > 'evoke tie'=. < o Cloak "0 o ;: '`: `' > > g2v=. evoke&6 o tie f. > > +/`'' g2v %`# > +/ % # > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Pascal Jasmin <godspiral2...@yahoo.ca>wrote: > >> +/`'' ( 4 : 'x ` y') %`# >> ┌───────┬─┬─┐ >> │┌─┬───┐│%│#│ >> ││/│┌─┐││ │ │ >> ││ ││+│││ │ │ >> ││ │└─┘││ │ │ >> │└─┴───┘│ │ │ >> └───────┴─┴─┘ >> >> I would like to be able to define a single function (verb) that produces >> >> >> (+/`'' ( 4 : 'x ` y') %`#)`:6 >> +/ % # >> >> is that possible? >> >> my failed attempt: >> >> g2v =: 1 : ('( u y) `:6' ;':';'(x u y) `:6 ') >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm