Ugh... remind me to never try to compose email on my phone.

The phone implementation of mail is hostile to user control of what's
being composed. (Presumably for very reasonable-sounding reasons.)

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:04 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Let’s pretend that 10?10 was a placeholder rather than your desired 
> operation.  Let’s also pretend that your desired operation doesn’t support 
> something like 10 10 10 10?10
>
> Typically we would want to use rank (") to solve this problem, but let’s 
> pretend we have carefully thought about this, and that ^: solves some problem 
> for us that rank doesn’t address.
>
> Also, let’s pretend that you not only want to perform the operation 4 times, 
> but that you also want to collect all four results.
>
> In this context, you need a verb that does 10?10. Let’s use
>
> V=: 10&?bind 10
>
> With that in mind, we might try
>
>    (,. V)^:4 i.10 0
>
> But... there’s a slight chance that that wouldn’t execute 10?10 four times.  
> So, instead, we could use:
>
>    V^:1 2 3 4 ''
>
> Not sure if any of this was relevant to your intent, though...
>
> Thanks,
>
> —
> Raul
>
> On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 'Skip Cave' via Programming 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> How can I use the power primitive ^: to execute 10?10 four times?
>> I want something like this:
>>
>> (10?10)^: 4
>>
>> 8 0 9 6 5 7 4 3 1 2
>>
>> 5 3 1 8 0 9 7 6 2 4
>>
>> 1 4 6 0 2 5 8 9 3 7
>>
>> 1 9 7 2 0 8 3 4 5 6
>>
>>
>>
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