It is much easier for me to answer from first principles than to remember what I said, even if I said it a mere month ago.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:56 am Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Why does the Residue function take its arguments in"reverse" order > Terrence wrote: > > It seems that the Residue function should follow > > the same argument order as % > > > > What motivated this decision? > > Roger responded: > > A dyad x f y in J is defined so that x&f is a > > more sensible function than f&y ... > > In other words: Remember your "asymmetry" thread? > > Roger Hui: > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2007-April/029638.html > > verbs in J (and APL) are designed so that fixing > the left argument makes a sensible monad. > ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
