Yes, thanks, Raul, I thought I had mentioned it somewhere. This is a place where the newbies can help me out. It is hard for me to know how much I have to say to make this clear. Can you, Alexander, or anyone else who has been puzzled by this, give some hints about what more I need to say?
Henry Rich Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Alexander Mikhailov<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you very much, Matthew. Henry Rich, please, please, include this >> bit of information explicitly into the next revision of your great book. >> Yes, I'm newbie, and yes, I don't fully understand the logic of verb >> definitions, or I could've tried to guess that myself, but it's still a >> pity I was in the dark for so long regarding this matter. > > I did not find a multi-line example of this, but he does say: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/verb-definition_revisited.htm > > The point to note is that a verb-definition sequence is just an > instance of a compound verb produced by a conjunction, and the > resulting verb can appear anywhere a verb is allowed; when the > resulting verb is executed, it operates by interpreting the text > of the definition one line at a time. You may assign the verb to > a name but that's not required. Here are some examples showing > how a definition is just an ordinary part of a sentence: > addrow =: monad : '+/y' "1 > ... > > FYI, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
