On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Matthew Brand wrote:
> Does anybody know how to make this work? I have an adverb A defined in
> a locale N1 which references the function "fun" which is also in that
> locale, but it is called from 'base' as A_N1_ ... How come it cannot
> find the verb "fun"? I expected the result to be 100, i.e. *: 2 * 5. I
> thought that J switched to the locale _N1_ and then executes the
> adverb?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew.
> 
>   cocurrent 'N1'
> 
>   fun =: 3 : 0
>        2*y
> )
> 
>   A =: 1 : 0
>         u fun y
> )
> 
>   cocurrent 'base'
>   *: A_N1_ 5
> |value error: fun
> |   u     fun y

I guess it is a design feature that automatic locale switching only
works for verb. You may try

  cocurrent 'base'
  coinsert 'N1'
  *: A 5

or write the 'fun' in z locale

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