Hi Blake, I think that the use of gerunds might be the solution. Henry Rich gives a really good description of how Tie, Agenda and gerunds work together. http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/loopless_code_iv_irregular_o.htm#_Toc191734391 If you haven't looked at Henry's book before, look through it. It is definitely time well spent.
Hope this helps, bob On 2011-12-31, at 7:50 AM, Blake McBride wrote: > Greetings, > > More than 25 years ago I wrote an IDE for APL. At the core what I did > (which I don't remember how now) is that I executed something to turn > an APL function into a character matrix. I would then edit it with me > IDE editing facility. When I saved the edited function it would turn > the edited character matrix back into a function (was that quad FX?). > > I also used this ability (to turn an APL function to and from a > character matrix) to write programs that generated other functions. > This was very nice. > > This leads me to my question - how can I turn a J verb into a > character matrix, and how can I turn a character matrix back into a > verb? > > Thanks! > > Blake McBride > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
