Speaking of pedantic, (;:'weeksinyear')`:6 is presumably explicit... Thanks,
-- Raul On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Explicit entities are created by the (:) conjunction. Anything else is > tacit. > > The distinction is notional. We all have little bits of tacit code in our > J lines: > > maxindex =: (i. >./) array > > the (i. >./) is a tiny tacit verb. If you gave it a name it would become > a named tacit verb. > > Sometimes the distinction seems pedantic: > > qverb =: 3 : 0"0 > ... > ) > > Is qverb tacit or explicit? > > Answer: tacit. It is not created by (:). It is created by ("). > > Henry Rich > > > > On 1/20/2017 9:39 PM, William Szuch wrote: > >> Trying to understand when an explicit verb is used in a tacit form. >> >> For example if I define v1 which is in a tacit form - does not have >> reference to arguments but contains the explicit verb rplc. >> >> >> v1 =: [: ". rplc&(LF;' ') >> >> >> In this case what should v1 be called - an explicit of tacit ?. >> >> >> v2 =: v1 f. >> >> >> If I now use f. to replace rplc in v1 then v2 is an explicit. >> >> The advantage of using f. is that if rplc has no public names then v2 has >> no >> public names. >> >> This can be useful is removing public names in a verb. >> >> >> Any comments to help with my understanding of tacits. >> >> >> Regards >> >> Bill Szuch >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
