Yes, the verb ]: produces non-nouns and the reason for defining it as a verb is because it becomes much more powerful this way. Why? Fortunately for me Dan has already has explained masterfully why, in the context of cloaking agenda (@.) as a verb in http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2013-January/031249.html ; he was not aware at that time that a cloaked @. is a wicked verb but that only strengthens his arguments. Here there is an example of this power, involving the verb ]:, for cloaking a few conjunctions and assigning them to multiple verbs (evoke, power, agenda and at) at once,
( 'evoke power agenda at'=. ]: @: < &.> @: ;: '`: ^: @. @:' ) ┌───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐ │(]:(<'`:'))│(]:(<'^:'))│(]:(<'@.'))│(]:(<'@:'))│ └───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘ Moreover, I routinely cloak as verbs all the primitive adverbs and conjunctions using a script containing the pertinent sentences on page 33 on the article in the Journal of J referred in the my initial post. I doubt Lev and Dex will be resurrected as [. and ]. because they can be defined easily explicitly and now even tacitly (see, http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2014-March/035796.html ). Yet, that is beside the point, it would be safer to define Trigger and Trap as, for instance, [.. and ].. ; but, my understanding is that the implementation becomes more difficult. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > These are good questions. > > I like these questions. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:22 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does the verb Cloak X ]: Y return a non-noun? If so, why ]: is > > not a conjunction? > > > > tokens [. and ]. were previously Lev and Dex, will it be better > > to reserve them for the possible resurrection of Lev and Dex; > > and use other tokens for Trigger and Trap? > > > > Pardon me if my questions are silly. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
