Thanks for looking at this.   The problem (or maybe I misunderstand) with this 
solution is that there is no real “c” in the sense that 

g c y 

is the required answer.    That is 

  *:`-:`^ (/."1 &. |:)   i. 3 5

(where c is the stuff in brackets) doesn’t work.   


> On 3 May 2019, at 3:58 pm, 'robert therriault' via Programming 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Piet,
> 
> I am not sure how simple it is, but combining Rob's excellent insight on 
> oblique with Transpose, Under and rank 1 you get this:
> 
>    (*:`-:`^ /.)"1 &. |: i. 3 5
>      0       1      4      9       16
>    2.5       3    3.5      4      4.5
> 22026.5 59874.1 162755 442413 1.2026e6
> 
> The transpose works in this case because the 3 gerunds are applied to each 
> transposed row and then Under (&.) undoes the transpose to provide the 
> results in a shape of 3 5
> 
> Cheers, bob
> 
>> On May 2, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Piet de Jong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks!   But it doesn’t appear to generalise to applying successive verbs 
>> in the gerund to successive >>items<< in y.  
>> 
>> (I checked the dictionary re /. and it  talks of “collections” of y.   Not 
>> sure what that means)
>> 
>> For example if y is i.3 5 then I’d like the first verb in the gerund to 
>> apply to the first item of y, the second verb to the second item, and so on.
>> 
>> Is there a simple solution for this?     
>> 
>>> On 3 May 2019, at 12:35 pm, 'Rob Hodgkinson' via Programming 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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