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Here, we are defining verbs inline and immediately evaluating them (by providing an argument (which is ignored because it is not referenced)).
 
The use of an unbalanced right parenthesis as an escape character was inherited from APL. The double curly brace mechanism was a compromise between J's existing use of curly braces and visual conventions used in a variety of other languages.
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