See J for C Programmers Chapter 39 (Parsing and Execution II) last section 

(here k is a verb, even though it is assigned the value 3)

Henry Rich

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Andrews
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:43 AM
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: [Jprogramming] undefined variables
> 
> hi,
> 
> it's possible to assign all sorts of things to a variable, but what
> does this mean:
> 
>    j=:k+
>    k=:3
>    j
> --T-┐
> │k│+│
> L-+--
>    j 4
> |domain error: k
> |       j 4
> 
> why isn't k substituted with 3 in j at some point?
> why can j be defined as it is in the first place?
> 
> ta, jack
> 

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