As a long time APL/J user - to answe your original question (in the context of Score and Penalties being positive numbers) it seems perfectly natural to write -
Total=: Score - Penalty1 + Penalty2 or if there were a vector (or even a table) of penalties - Score - +/Penalties > On 2016 May 12, at 19:33 , Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > > So that's what the problem looks like without the blinders of status > quo! Looks good, thanks > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> How can this be applied to my subtraction issue? At the risk of >>> sounding silly, is there any reasonable way to change the equation to >>> read from right to left without parentheses? >> >> Score=: 100 >> Penalty1=: _10 >> Penalty2=: _20 >> [ Total=: Score + Penalty1 + Penalty2 >> >> -- >> Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
