Also, including an offending piece of code usually will make it clearer what the issue is.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:05 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are writing adverb and conjunction using explicit > definition, then you are actually defining them using verbs > and a verb must return a noun otherwise syntax error. > > I usually debug using dbr 1 but others may prefer gui debug > ctrl-k. > > Fri, 31 Jan 2020, Raoul Schorer написал(а): > > Hi, > > > > I wrote a dyadic conjunction, that I call as: > > > > x u conj v y, where x u v y are all nouns > > > > However, I get the error "noun result was required". My conjunction > > actually yields a "suspended function" (thunk) in the form of a string > > wrapped in the "_ verb, as in ('recursive_function')"_ > > I have two questions regarding that: > > > > > > 1. In JfC, it is stated that the result of a conjunction may be > another > > conjunction, and that conjunctions may return any part-of-speech. Can > you > > give me pointers on why this may fail as above? > > 2. If as I suspect, it is difficult to provide a general explanation, > > can you point me towards ways of debugging such an issue, where I > just get > > an error from a function that yields a string to be interpreted > (making > > 'dissect' apparently useless)? > > > > > > Thanks! > > Raoul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
