>From www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictf.htm I read that a conjunction >with noun or verb produces an adverb.
The examples given are: each=: &.> which I'm pretty sure I understand and bc=: <" NB. boxcells which I found enlightening 0 bc i.3 +-+-+-+ |0|1|2| +-+-+-+ I know an adverb alters the meaning of the verb to its left to create a new verb. I interpret this last example to be showing that adverbs also alter the noun to its left to create a new verb. This led me to: 2(&^) 3 NB. Adverb (&^) applied to noun 2 gives the verb "2-to-the-power" 8 2(^&) 3 NB. Adverb (^&) applied to the noun 2 gives the verb "square" 9 However I wasn't able to track down anything in the dictionary that states that explicitly. I looked on the following pages: www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/intro03.htm www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/intro15.htm www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict2.htm www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictb.htm www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictc.htm www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictf.htm The closest I got was on <www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict2.htm> were it states that: "An adverb acts on a single noun or verb to its left." and then gives an example of an adverb acting on a verb to create a derived verb. And on <www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictc.htm> where it states that: "Conjunctions and adverbs apply to noun or verb arguments; a conjunction may produce as many as four distinct classes of results." These tells me that an adverb can apply to a noun as well as a verb, but don't tell me what the result is. Can anyone confirm or correct my interpretation? Can you point me to a dictionary reference? Perhaps this is basic grammar? If so, the only poor excuse I can offer is having been educated at a time where teaching grammar was deemed not important! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
