Thanks for the explanation.  It was very helpful.

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Pepe reported recently that some code using non-standard J (viz verbs that
> return non-nouns) stopped working for beta-g, and supplied an example.
>
> In beta-g and later, code has been streamlined to take advantage of the
> fact that all verbs are internally represented as atoms with the VERB
> type.  The failing code was trying to execute a block that was stored as a
> VERB type with rank 1.  This now crashes.  Converting verbs to atoms before
> execution might cover over the problem.
>
> Needless to say, there is no guarantee that non-standard code will be
> portable over machines, releases, or state lines.
>
> Henry Rich
>
>
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