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
