What I'm saying is that it doesn't work at all. The "nl 0" inside "myverb" returns the same list as the one outside it: the locals defined inside the verb don't show up at all.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm not sure why something like this doesn't work: > > > > myverb=: 3 : 0 > > a=. 'hello' > > b=. 3 4 2 9 > > c=. 'big';'little';30 2 > > nl 0 > > ) > > > > (nl 0)-.myverb '' > > That should work, usually, but has several limitations: > > It requires modifying the verb. > It will not display names which do not stand for nouns. > It will not display names that shadow "global" names. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
