Ok, but this gets into the question of whether constructs mixing tacit
and explicit mechanisms are tacit or explicit.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Jose Mario Quintana
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The key word is "allowed."  For example,
>
>
>    * <adv
> ┌─┐
> │*│
> └─┘
>    X=. * <adv
>
>    2 (>X) 3
> 6
>
> Of course, they can break the rules,
>
>    t3=. 1 : 'x <adv'
>    * t3
> ┌─┐
> │*│
> └─┘
>
> Furthermore, tacit verbs can (break the rules and) produce entities which
> explicit verbs are not allowed, in an even stronger sense, to produce,
>
>    t4=. 1 : 'x (3 : ''< y'') adv'
>
>    * t4
> |noun result was required: t4
> |       <y
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Jose Mario Quintana
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Not necessarily, explicit adverbs can do whatever a (v hg) adverb can;
>> > however, (v adv) can do things that explicit adverbs are not allowed to
>> do.
>>
>> Are you sure?
>>
>> If by "do" you mean something about the details of how the adverb is
>> structured, ok - but that is not a constraint on the relationship
>> between the argument and the result, which is not what I would think
>> that the word "do" refers to.
>>
>> And, in that general vein, I suppose extreme constraints on uses of
>> names might somehow qualify, also. (Though for this to be relevant to
>> anything you sort of have to ignore the significant use of names which
>> comes with our typical J usage.)
>>
>> That said, there might be interesting cases, involving resource limits
>> where (v hg) does something which an explicit workalike does not. But
>> I can't think of any other reason why a (v hg) adverb could do
>> anything that an explicit adverb cannot.
>>
>> Put differently, can you give any examples of this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Raul
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