On 2020-07-09 06:27, Raul Miller wrote:
I don't know what you would use this for, though, so probably it could
have a better name.

It just comes up in normal code that you have a non-tacit train
of monadic verbs. To pick one at random:

  echo # ucp 'こんにちは'

And generalizing these into an explicit verb is very clean:

  cpoints =: 3 : 'echo # ucp y'

But this not the case with a tacit verb:

  cpoints =: [: echo [: # [: ucp
  cpoints =: echo @: # @: ucp

However you do it you introduce a lot of visual noise that's
completely absent in the original code.

So I don't think there's a particular use-case for atred,
rather there's a feeling of frustration with the outcome of
making some code tacit.


I'd guess that a better solution is just 13 :

Here are some uses of that in J packages:

demos/wdplot/pledit.ijs

  getfontsz=: 13 : '{.1{._1 -.~ _1 ". y'

demos/isigraph/isedit.ijs

  getfontsize=. 13 : '{.1{._1 -.~ _1 ". y'

games/bagofnouns/bagofnounsgui.ijs

  crlftolf =: 13 : '(-. (CR,LF) E. y) # y'
  lflftolf =: 13 : '(-. (LF,LF) E. y) # y'

general/misc/pack.ijs

  pget=: 13 : '> {: y {~ ({."1 y) i. {. boxopen,x'
  psel=: 13 : 'y {~ ({."1 y) i. ;: ::] x'

misc/miscutils/utils.ijs

  tod =: 13 : '6!:0 y'
  todhms =: 13 : '3 }. tod y'
  todymd =: 13 : '3 {. <. tod y'
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