Notice that in the example below, the conjunction 'def'
has two arguments, a monadic left hand and a dyadic
right hand. Your examples only needed the monadic.

   def
 :
   /:~ def /:
/:~ :/:


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Ian Gorse<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I just been looking at the 'sort' verb to understand how its done.
>
>   sort
> /:~ :/:
> ┌──────┬─┬──┐
> │┌──┬─┐│:│/:│
> ││/:│~││ │  │
> │└──┴─┘│ │  │
> └──────┴─┴──┘
>
> I don't understand why the ':/:' is there for as
>   sort2=: /:~
>   sort2 9 8 7 6 3
> 3 6 7 8 9
>
> produces correct results on all my simple test cases.
>
> Thanks
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