Hi Piet, not ignorant at all !

Try using oblique (an obscure feature is that the u in u/. can be a gerund, in 
which case it is evoked cell wise);

   g=. *: ` -: `^
   y=. 3 1 0
   g /. y
9
0.5
1

Found in Section 15 of https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/brief.pdf 
<https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/brief.pdf>.

HTH, Regards Rob

> On 3 May 2019, at 10:59 am, pietdion <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hopefully not an ignorant question.
> 
> Am looking for a simple (tacit, non complicated) construction (verb?
> adverb? conjunction?) “c" that takes a gerund and applies the successive
> verbs in the gerund to successive items.
> 
> A simple example is
> 
>     g=. *: ` -: `^
>     y=. 3 1 0
>     g  c  y
> 9  0.5  1
> 
> What “c”  achieves this for arbitrary gerunds g's and y’s?
> 
> I realise this can be done in a variety of explicit ways and  with the
> agenda construct.    All I can come up with is intricate constructions.
> Looking for something simple and direct.   Seems to have a lot of uses.
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