[Jprogramming] Turning verbs to and from strings

[bob therriault]

Hi Blake,

I think that the use of gerunds might be the solution. Henry Rich gives a really good description of how Tie, Agenda and gerunds work together.
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/loopless_code_iv_irregular_o.htm#_Toc191734391
If you haven't looked at Henry's book before, look through it. It is definitely time well spent.

Hope this helps, bob

On 2011-12-31, at 7:50 AM, Blake McBride wrote:

> 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
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