Point taken.
Might be in his modified J interpreter though.
Thanks,
--
Raul
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote:
> A verb's "argument" refers to the values used to invoke it. Therefore
> names fixed in its definition are not arguments (excepting y and x which
> are defined to refer to its argument(s)).
>
> Yes, it is possible to invoke verbs with strings or other nouns which
> directly or indirectly name non-nouns (e.g. quoted global names, quote J
> code, atomic representations as boxed nouns, etc), but I explicitly
> excluded that approach in my question because it is trivial and
> uninteresting ("Short of passing in strings and evoking them...").
>
> This is Pepe we're talking about here. He's got something more wicked up
> his sleeve ("explicit verbs **even if they should not** can take any kind
> words as arguments").
>
> -Dan
>
> > On Mar 8, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Explicit verbs can refer to things by name.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > 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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