I would explain it by quoting a few sentences from the dictionary Execution proceeds from right to left, except that when a right parenthesis is encountered... in an unparenthesized expression the right argument of any verb is the result of the entire phrase to its right... The executions in the stack are confined to the first four elements only
I would then suggest that the person read the dictionary: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm And point to the pages on http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/fork and http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/hook And play with trace as Raul suggested On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > But can you explain the difference in a few words? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
