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From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell)
Subject: Re: Selective assignment (was Re: J is NOT APL)
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Sam>   I'd really like to build something that I could use without ammend:
Sam>      x i thing a

What about 
   gniht=. '':'(>1{.y.) (>{.y.) } x.'
used as
   a gniht i;x
?

If speed of explicit evaluation is a significant problem, you could
implement it as a 10!: customization.

No?

Raul
