Ah that makes sense. Thank you! Slowly getting it…
Appreciate all the help and patience.

> On Jan 16, 2022, at 8:58 PM, Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No, u&v works differently:
> 
> a silly example:
>   - 4
> _4
>   - 5
> _5
>   NB. these all do the same:
>   _4 + _5
> _9
>   (- 4) + (- 5)
> _9
>   4 +&- 5
> _9
> 
> So dyadic x u&v y applies v monadicly to both x and y,
> u then applies dyadicly to (v x) and (v y)
> 
> x u&v y ←→ (v x) u (v y)
> 
> eg pythagoras
>   %: 3 +&*: 4
> 5
> 
> Am 17.01.22 um 05:53 schrieb P Padilcdx:
>> What I don’t quite understand was the expansion of
>> -.&;:&’-‘ y
>> to
>> y (-.&;:) ‘-‘
>> and then
>> (;: y) -. (;: ‘-‘)
>> So I was thinking the -.&;: is a hook.
>> Complete newbie, so apologies.
>>> On Jan 16, 2022, at 8:46 PM, Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don’t quite understand.
>>> LHS is just the result of applying ;: to the value 'start-A'.
>>> 
>>> Am 17.01.22 um 05:45 schrieb P Padilcdx:
>>>> That helps.  What rule applies for making the LHS? Is it a hook?
>>>> Thank You!!
>>>>> On Jan 16, 2022, at 8:09 PM, Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe I should elaborate on this a bit more:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ] LHS =: ;: 'start-A'
>>>>> ┌─────┬─┬─┐
>>>>> │start│-│A│
>>>>> └─────┴─┴─┘
>>>>>   ] RHS =: ;: '-'
>>>>> ┌─┐
>>>>> │-│
>>>>> └─┘
>>>>>   LHS -. RHS
>>>>> ┌─────┬─┐
>>>>> │start│A│
>>>>> └─────┴─┘
>>>>>   (;: 'start-A') -. (;: '-')
>>>>> ┌─────┬─┐
>>>>> │start│A│
>>>>> └─────┴─┘
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or was the missing link for you somewhere else?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 17.01.22 um 04:56 schrieb Hauke Rehr:
>>>>>> First, you apply ;._2
>>>>>> Then it’s just a row-wise -.&;:
>>>>>> eg
>>>>>>    'start-A' (-.&;:) '-'
>>>>>> ┌─────┬─┐
>>>>>> │start│A│
>>>>>> └─────┴─┘
>>>>>> Am 17.01.22 um 04:01 schrieb P Padilcdx:
>>>>>>> Slowly following the discussion. I confess I’m stuck at how the 
>>>>>>> composition of -.&;:&’-‘ work in the unpack verb.  Try to read the 
>>>>>>> description of & in NuVoc and LJ, but i confess to still be clueless as 
>>>>>>> to how J parses it. I experimented a bit but still perplexed.  Can 
>>>>>>> someone point me in the right direction?  Much appreciated.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Pete
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jan 2, 2022, at 11:52 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> unpack=:-.&;:&'-';._2
>>>>>>> 
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