"ramacd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The thing that does tug at me, it is getting my head around how a dyadic
> verb has an inverse. I think the same thing happens with #^:_1but I haven't
> yet seen nor thought up a good explanation for how those inverse cases were
> derived.

In the definition of ^: dyadic verbs (x f y) are treated as monads (x&f y),
and inverted accordingly.  You can similarly get powers of (x f~ y) from (f&x 
y).

Unfortunately, (f b. _1) only provides the monadic case, and related
mecahnisms (d. and t.) aren't similarly extended. (You CAN get the
dyadic cases by explicitly bonding the left parameter, however).

-- Mark D. Niemiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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