On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 12:15 -0400, Marshall Lochbaum wrote: > Verbs can't return verbs (sad but true). You want the adverb
Yes, quite, and you have no idea what this does to my neatly ordered views on functional compositionality! :( To clarify for Bob Therriault and anyone else, what I wanted was a monadic "part of speech" that will generate the verb "mypoly" So far, on Marshal's advice I have the quite acceptable: makepoly =: &p. mypoly =. 1 2 3 makepoly NB. Just like a verb but arguments reversed mypoly 4 57 NB. Success Thanks Marshall -- so I suppose you can't "reverse" the arguments for an adverb, since this would break down the linguistic metaphor, although I'm not quite sure how well it holds here. After all, it looks like I'm combining a noun (1 2 3) with an adverb (&p.) to make a verb! Anyway it works acceptably for my purposes, so all's well again... As Bob said, you've got to review some assumptions. Hm... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
