There's actually several issues here, one being the parsing issue Henry has highlighted.
Another is a difficulty in reproducing the problem: f=: {{ GLOBAL=: 'global defined here' }} GLOBAL [ f'' |domain error in GLOBAL, executing monad GLOBAL | GLOBAL[f'' GLOBAL [ f'' global defined here We can make the problem more reproducible by explicitly erasing GLOBAL before executing f. GLOBAL [ f erase'GLOBAL' |domain error in GLOBAL, executing monad GLOBAL | GLOBAL[f erase'GLOBAL' And, now that we have a viable test case, we can demonstrate workarounds: GLOBAL [[ f erase'GLOBAL' global defined here GLOBAL [(f erase'GLOBAL') global defined here Generally speaking a parenthesized expression is always evaluated before anything to the left of it is considered. But adding extra verbs for the parser to chew on also works. FYI, -- Raul On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 3:04 PM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This follows the parsing rules. > > f is executed when the pattern > > N V V N > > is seen on the execution stack. GLOBAL has already been stacked at that > point, as an undefined verb. When later GLOBAL is to be executed, its value > has been changed to a noun. That pun is disallowed. > > Henry Rich > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 2:03 PM David Lambert <b49p23t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > $ ijconsole > > > > f=: {{ GLOBAL=: 'global defined here' }} > > > > GLOBAL [ f'' > > |domain error in GLOBAL, executing monad GLOBAL > > | GLOBAL[f'' > > > > GLOBAL [ f'' > > global defined here > > > > JVERSION > > Engine: j9.5.0-beta9/j64avx2/linux > > Build: commercial/2023-12-06T14:16:14/clang-11-0-0/SLEEF=1 > > Library: 9.5.5 > > Platform: Linux 64 > > Installer: unknown > > InstallPath: /usr/share/j/9.5 > > Contact:www.jsoftware.com > > > > Be well, Dave. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm