The display for that page tries to "make columnar" results of raw expression and EVM expression. The lines are not legal J.
'*: 4' EVM NB. should work *: 4 '*: 4' EVM NB. results in N N - syntax error. On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 07:14:41 a.m. EST, Richard Donovan <rsdono...@hotmail.com> wrote: I was reading on the J website of the useful sounding adverb EVM so I went to the link at Help / Learning / Ap 1: Evaluating Expressions - J Wiki (jsoftware.com)<https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Help/Learning/Ap_1:_Evaluating_Expressions> and downloaded it. So far I cannot get it to work at all using the examples given, I get syntax error in every case! EG From the wiki page... *: 4 '*: 4' EVM 16 16 Me: *: 4'*: 4' EVM |syntax error | *: 4'*: 4'EVM Have I catastrophically misunderstood this, or missed something obvious?? Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
