A constant verb (with rank _) can be produced easily via &[. For example,
(1 2 3 &[) _
1 2 3
and it could be followed by a suitable rank (") form if necessary. Am I
missing something?
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> All the partitioning modifiers (\ /. \. ;. etc) allow u to be a gerund
> that is applied cyclically to the partitions. Thus, +`-/. applies + and -
> alternately.
>
> All the modifiers, that is, except one. The simplest one. One that
> perhaps wasn't thought of as partitioning, though it clearly does. It
> partitions the y argument into cells.
>
> If m"n had been defined consistently with the other partitioning
> modifiers, we would be able to write +`-"_1 to have different verbs applied
> to items. This would have saved dozens of emails over the years searching
> for a good way to perform this often-needed operation.
>
> The constant-verb would have to move somewhere else: m&n, m@n, and many
> other places are free.
>
> For the next language.
>
> Henry Rich
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