This time I do remember, having re-read it only earlier today. Quoting from http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2007-April/029638.html
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/more_verbs.htm comments on the order of arguments in /: and \: . In these cases the answer is "obvious". With the current order of arguments, /: y \: y x /: y x \: y it is always the right argument which is being graded. ----- Original Message ----- From: Markus Schmidt-Groettrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:03 pm Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Why does the Residue function take its arguments in "reverse" order > The question has been answered already. The mathematical > convention is > too important. > Thus minus - , divide %, less -. , element e. and by the way > Matrix > divide % have the > conventional arguments and differ from the J rule: > "x are the control information - y are the data" as expressed in JfC. > > But so far I have not seen the argument, why the sort /: and \: > behave > different. > When writing code I quite often make mistakes here, so a good > argument > would help to remember. > Thanks, > > Markus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
