Explicit verbs can refer to things by name.
Thanks,
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Raul
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote:
> I know you've mentioned this capability before - can you refresh my memory?
>
> Short of passing in strings and evoking them, how would you get an
> explicit verb to "see" an adverb (or conjunction) as an argument? What name
> does it get assigned to (if it is possible for y and/or x to not have
> nameclass noun, that's scary - in a thrilling way).
>
> -Dan
>
> > On Mar 7, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Jose Mario Quintana <
> jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 ')
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