Primitives

K's primitives are designed to fit a large range of diverse functionality within the ASCII character set. This makes it typable on a keyboard, while keeping the language expressive and interesting to use.

All of K's primitives are made to be multipurpose, and have varied meanings based on the context they are used in. Primitives can be either 1 or 2 characters long.

Verbs

Single argument forms(monadic) listed first, two-argument forms(dyadic) listed second.

Table of Primitives in major dialects

	K3-K6		K9
	monad	dyad	monad	dyad
:	self	right
+	transpose	add
-	negate	subtract
*	first	multiply
%	square root	divide
!	enum, odometer, keys	mod, create dict
&	where	min
|	reverse	max
<	grade up	lesser
>	grade down	greater
=	group, identity matrix	equal
~	not	match
,	enlist	concatenate
^	null?	except, fill	sort	cut
#	length	take, reshape		filter
_	floor, lowercase	drop, delete, cut		filter-out
$	string	pad, cast
?	distinct, random-float	find, random
@	type	at		cast
.	eval	dot