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These are indeed issues you understand by surprise (why is this code not doing what I meant it to do) comming from other languages. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com> To: Programming forum <programm...@jsoftware.com> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] OOJ and calling a verb from another locale Pascal, I especially liked the point you made below. I think such a point would be very appreciated by new J programmers and may not be well known. "... In J, the verb (2 + myvar"_) will produce a constant verb based on the value of myvar at definition, while (2 + 3 : 'myvar') will obtain the latest value of myvar. ..." -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm