> Oh. I'm probably the last one to notice this. Let's call this
I say that probability is zero :)
On the one hand, the behavior of f. is what I expect; I have a fixing habit
and I would hate a change in its behavior. On the other hand, the ranks mv
lv rv seem a "natural" choice for m~ in the f
"named verb" is a concept relevant to an expression of the form: name~
However <@name has no rank properties different from <@verb in the general case.
Note also that verbs with an empty domain still have rank. [:"2 for example...
Is this useful? Perhaps not directly, but one of the things J's
I learned something new in the last 90 minutes, this is a small
summary.
(I always tell people that one never stops learning J. Nevertheless
I'm still always a bit surprised when this holds for me, too. :-)
It dawns on me that I just re-answered the "when is v f. not v?" FAQ
which I admittedly
Thanks for the feedback; it helps.
a. The entry is somewhat tricky because it can also produce a noun, an
adverb or a conjunction but mv lv rv makes sense for a named verb. The
situation for m~ and m f. is similar and I would expect the corresponding
dictionary's rank information for both entrie
a. The dictionary entry for m~ should not say that its rank is _ . The
ranks should be mv lv rv, which are the ranks of the named verb. For
example:
goo=: 4"1 2 3
'goo'~ b. 0
1 2 3
b. *Even* and *odd* derive verbs whose dyadic domains are empty. The
equivalence stated in the dictionary e
III. Definitions ( http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict3.htm )
explains the rank information shown in the vocabulary entries for verbs.
Most of the other entries also have what it seems to be the rank
information of verbs that they produce. The following are just a few
related questions: