Not on any of the J systems I've tried!  (Including Linux, Win32(Wine),
or Windows Mobile / PPC)

I thought it was just a weird peculiarity of J, obviously d. "should"
work on a user defined verb if it can.

I tried with other verbs, like p. too, just in case o. was causing the
problem.  Nope, once you define a verb in terms of its primitives d.
don't work no more.  Just FYI

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 21:58 +0000, Dan Bron wrote:
> Raul is right, but just to be clear, when applied to arguments, sincos d. 1 
> and sincos f. d. 1  will have identical results*.  Just type into the IJX 
> without arguments, the latter looks different from the former for exactly the 
> same reason sincos f.  looks different from sincos .
> 
> That is, f. explicitly requests its argument be exploded into its components 
> (but again, the argument to f. applied to its own arguments will havbe the 
> same results, exploded or not - that's the point of naming stuff - 
> subordinating detail / hiding complexity).
>  
> -Dan
> 
> * I haven't tested this, but if it isn't true, that's an interpreter bug.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.


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