On 9 October 2017 at 04:56, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, monadic ↑ acts as if it was called dyadically with 1 as its
> left argument,
>

That's not quite true:

      ⍴⍴1↑'ABC'
1
      ⍴⍴↑'ABC'
0

while monadic ↓ raises a VALENCE ERROR. In almost every single case where I
> have used ↓, it has been in the form 1↓X. Is there a reason why the monadic
> form is not allowed?
>

FYI in Dyalog APL monadic ↓ is Split:

      ↓3 3⍴⎕A
┌───┬───┬───┐
│ABC│DEF│GHI│
└───┴───┴───┘

I believe this came from STSC's NARS.

Jay.

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