During the execution of twice, the value func is set to is 'func'; hence the stack error. You could use
func =. u f. Henry Rich On 4/13/2011 5:18 AM, Ben Gorte - LR wrote: > Dear J programmers, > > A small adverb: > > twice =: 1 : 0 > func =. u > func func y > ) > > The local assignment to func does not make much sense, but the question is: > is it allowed? Well, it seems so: > > *: twice i.5 > 0 1 16 81 256 > > but I should not give it a function with the same name as my local one: > > func =: *: > func twice 3 > |stack error: func > | func func y > > I expected this to be okay. Why isn't it? > > Ben > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
