Another way, but probably no better than the others.

   ;([,(<', '),])/Z
alpha, bravo, charlie

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The initial transcript should have been:
>
>    Z=: ;:'alpha bravo charlie'
>
>    ;:inv Z
> alpha bravo charlie
>
>    }.;' ';"1,.Z
> alpha bravo charlie
>
>    9!:7]11#' '
>
>    ,1 1}._1 _1}.":Z
> alpha bravo charlie
>
> My gmail induced formatting errors are seriously making me reluctant
> to use email.
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >   Z=: ;:'alpha bravo charlie'
> >    ;:inv Zalpha bravo charlie   }.;' ';"1,.Z
> > alpha bravo charlie
> >   9!:7]11#' '
> >   ,1 1}._1 _1}.":Z
> > alpha bravo charlie
> >
> > I think ;:inv is the closest you are going to get to a single
> > primitive version.  There are probably too many worthwhile
> > possibilities for alternatives (newlines should terminate, commas
> > should separate, bullets should prefix, ...) for other the
> > alternatives to be single-primitive
> >
> > That said, I do wish that L: would turn constants into verbs the same
> > way that "_ does:
> >
> >   ;}.,', ';"1 ,.Z
> > alpha, bravo, charlie
> >   ;}.,(,.~ 1 |.!.(<' and ') ', '"_ L:0) Z
> > alpha, bravo and charlie
> >
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Suppose z is boxed strings, eg  z=: ;: 'alpha bravo charlie'
> >>
> >> I half-recall there's a neater (single-primitive) way to recover the
> >> string 'alpha bravo charlie' from z than:
> >>
> >>   b2o=: [: }. [: ; ' ' ,&.> ]
> >>   b2o z
> >> alpha bravo charlie
> >>
> >> but I've forgotten what it is and can't seem to find it in Voc or Dic.
> >>
> >> On the page for "Raze" (;) the Dictionary says archly:
> >>   The fit conjunction (;!.f) provides fill specified by the atom f
> >> but AFAICS (;!.' ')z is the same as ;z , viz: 'alphabravocharlie' .
> >>
> >> Nor incidentally is (;) listed as such on the page for "Fit" (!.) .
> >>
> >> I observe however that:
> >>   ;:inv z
> >> alpha bravo charlie
> >>
> >> But what's in my mind is a way of interleaving some other letter, or 2
> >> spaces, or comma-space, etc.
> >>
> >> BTW timer (6!:2) tells me that ;:inv is slower than b2o .
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