That is right,

   evoke=. (<'`:')(0:`)(,^:)
  'evoke&6 @: <' apply '@'
@

This is not suitable for the purposes that Pascal has in mind (that is an
ideal job for wl (104!:1)); but, apply can return any kind of words.

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

;)


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually, thinking about it, that's just apply acting as a verb.
>
> Presumably to produce a verb it's either using the "wicked power' bug or a
> custom hack to the interpreter.
>
> Personally, I have enough problems with J crashing on me and am hoping to
> fix such issues, so I stay away from verbs returning non-nouns.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Note that you quoted this text:
> >
> >    2 ('+/' apply ,) 3
> > 5
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >>   '@u'eval
> >> @a:
> >>
> >>   '@u' 1 : ''''' 1 : m'
> >> @''
> >>
> >>
> >> You are right about it being fairly easy to shoehorn any dyadic verb
> into
> >> a modad for apply, but there is a simplicity to eval when a large boxed
> >> structure made of several variables is the left hand part.
> >>
> >> > PPS.  For the record: perhaps apply (128!:2) should not produce
> adverbs
> >> or
> >> conjunctions (or verbs); but, it can.
> >>
> >> I won't say I don't believe you, but I don't know how. :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected]>
> >> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> >> Cc:
> >> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 4:32:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] an improvement to apply and perhaps anon
> evoke
> >>
> >> I have used similar tools for related purposes before; nowadays I use
> the
> >> word-from-linear (104!:1) extension.  It is not a secret that I have an
> >> aversion to explicit definitions; one reason is that they change the
> >> context:
> >>
> >>    wl=. 104!:1
> >>    eval =: 1 : ' a: 1 :  m'
> >>
> >>    < '@' eval +'/' eval 1 2 3
> >> ┌─┐
> >> │6│
> >> └─┘
> >>    < '@' wl   +'/' wl   1 2 3
> >> ┌─┐
> >> │6│
> >> └─┘
> >>
> >> So far, so good; however,
> >>
> >>    @u
> >> @u
> >>    '@u'wl
> >> @u
> >>    '@u'eval
> >> @a:
> >>
> >> PS.  Apply (128!:2) only can refer to a verb that take a single
> argument,
> >> and J verbs can take only one or two arguments.  I regard both
> situations
> >> as very minor annoyances.  It is not difficult to circumvent this
> >> “limitation” of apply (and, of course, J verbs can take virtually
> several
> >> arguments), for example,
> >>
> >>    2 ('+/' apply ,) 3
> >> 5
> >>
> >> PPS.  For the record: perhaps apply (128!:2) should not produce adverbs
> or
> >> conjunctions (or verbs); but, it can.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > apply does not work with dyadic verbs, and cannot produce modifiers.
> >> >  Consider the following simple looking eval function.
> >> >
> >> > eval =: 1 : ' a: 1 :  m'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   2 '+' eval 1 2 3
> >> > 3 4 5
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   + '/' eval 1 2 3
> >> > 6
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   '+/' eval(+:@) 1 2 3
> >> > 12
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   +:@+'/' eval 1 2 3
> >> > 22
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   +: +'/' eval 1 2 3
> >> > 12
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  (+: '@' eval +)'/' eval 1 2 3
> >> >
> >> > 22
> >> >
> >> >   +: '@' eval +'/' eval 1 2 3
> >> > 12
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The last statement is interesting because it seems to alter the normal
> >> > conjunction train processing (sometimes in desirable ways)
> >> >
> >> > instead of just grabbing a single token as v.
> >> >
> >> > < '@' eval +'/' eval 1 2 3    NB. would be domain error without
> '@'eval
> >> > ┌─┐
> >> > │6│
> >> > └─┘
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > eval is the key to how my multiline tacit code works:
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/PascalJasmin/Multiline%20tacit%20expressions%20with%20macros
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