Probably, but there's significant code which uses the current implementation.

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Raul
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:16 AM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
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>
> amend and item amend are completely different verbs with the monadic version 
> much more similar to a "select" operation than an update operation.
> (v0`v1`v2)} y is a select verb, that doesn't even match the update behaviour, 
> and so doesn't need to be made ambivalent to dyadic  x (v0`v1`v2)} y
>
> my suggestions:
> v0`v1} would be (v0 {"0 1&.|: v1) and can/could be called ambivalently
> (v0`v1`v2)}y would be (v0 y) (v1 y)} ( v2 y)  (calling amend even 
> monadically... and also the same verb as dyadic call
>
> I would suggest that the entire history of use for v0`v1`v2} y has been a 
> mistaken omission of the x parameter on an intended amend call.
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