Furthermore, if I show the verb, wiy 3 : '52+ +./"1 [ 4=weekday(1 1,:12 31),"0 1/~ y'
there is no way to know if is tacit or not because I could have done, wiy=. 3 : '52+ +./"1 [ 4=weekday(1 1,:12 31),"0 1/~ y' or, wiy=. 'weeksinyear' f. Really? On Saturday, January 21, 2017, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of pedantic, (;:'weeksinyear')`:6 is presumably explicit... > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
