Another variant :
exec =: 4 : 0
:
('Left';x;". x),:'Right';y;". y
)
'1+1' exec '2+2'
┌─────┬───┬─┐
│Left │1+1│2│
├─────┼───┼─┤
│Right│2+2│4│
└─────┴───┴─┘
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:27 PM 'robert therriault' via Programming <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> Are you looking for ". (Do)
> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quotedot
>
> ".'1 + 1'
> 2
> FUNCTION=: 4 : 0
> smoutput x NB. output x string
> smoutput y NB. output y string
> x +&". y NB. Using + as the dyadic verb placeholder, equivalent to (".
> x) + ". y
> )
> '1+1' FUNCTION '2+2'
> 1+1
> 2+2
> 6
>
> Cheers, bob
>
> > On Feb 18, 2020, at 09:10, PMA <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This question must be too clueless to ask,
> > but two hours with NuVoc leaves me still
> > wondering --
> >
> > I need to write a function invocation with
> > its numeric x and y each in quotes as TEXT:
> >
> > '1+1' FUNCTION '2+2'
> >
> > I want the function then, after displaying
> > x and y, to remove their quotes and execute
> > their innards.
> >
> > What (a primitive, I assume!) will convert
> > each quote to an executable expression?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Sorry to test your patience!
> > Pete
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