Thanks for your answer. But I can't understand it.
Here is what I want to do.
I have an adverb called av say.
Also have verbs say v1, v2, v3.
Then I want the verb
v=. (v1 av) , (v2 av) , (v3 av)
Of course I can write it out as in the last sentence above, but I was
hoping to be able just to define a gerund
g=.v1`v2`v3
and then "apply" av to g.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:35 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Generally speaking, its a good idea to include an illustrative use
> case with a specification, so let's make up one:
>
> Let's say my keyboard is getting worn out, and I have to hit the ` key
> an arbitrary number of times before it works. So I want to be able to
> form gerunds without using that key.
>
> So, let's write a tacit adverb which takes a verb train and flattens
> it into a gerund.
>
> The first step is easy:
>
> (a b c d)(`'')
> +-------------------+
> |+-+---------------+|
> ||2|+-+-----------+||
> || ||a|+-+-------+|||
> || || ||3|+-+-+-+||||
> || || || ||b|c|d|||||
> || || || |+-+-+-+||||
> || || |+-+-------+|||
> || |+-+-----------+||
> |+-+---------------+|
> +-------------------+
>
> And we can build up a tacit verb which performs the needed transform:
>
> isT=: 0:`((-:&(,'2')+-:&(,'3'))@((0;0)&{::))@.(1<:L.)
> t2g=: (}:,t2g@,@{:)@((0;1)&{::)^:isT
>
> t2g (a b c d)(`'')
> +-+-+-+-+
> |a|b|c|d|
> +-+-+-+-+
>
> But now we get to the tricky part.
>
> Conceptually, we want to do something like this:
>
> T2G=: (`'')((t2g`)(`:6))
>
> But that doesn't actually work. The problem is that we need to
> transform that initial gerund to a noun representation of a gerund
> before this can work:
>
> T2G=: (`'')G2g((t2g`)(`:6))
>
> In other words, we want an adverb G2g which behaves like the verb ('0';<)
>
> That's doable, and if you search the forum you can find posts by Jose
> Mario Quintana which do the needed work (you incorporate that gerund
> into a verb built with (&[) and then extract the relevant subtree).
> The modularity of his approach is a little different from what I've
> described here, but now that you know what you're looking for, that
> shouldn't stop you...
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:03 AM Piet Google <pietd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe already answered elsewhere and/or an ignorant question.
> > But can’t figure it out.
> > Is there a (tacit) way to apply an adverb to each of a list of verbs?
> >
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