monk: ... what would Tony Shaloub say?
On 5/23/07, R.A. MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Terrence;
Given that this ordering is as old as APL, thus as old as I am, and I do
not recall having seen an explanation, I would also be interested in one.
A thought: the #: (Antibase) verb follows the same pattern, as did APL's
decode (or was it encode? dualities always throw me) with a default left
argument of 2 in the monadic case. It sctually returns the same result
when the left argument is a scalar:
3 #: 10
1
3 | 10 NB. Veery intestingk.
1
Nitpicky questions are the new poster's job. If you want negative
reactions to a novice, ask a Perl "monk" a question.
Terrence Brannon wrote:
> It seems that the Residue function should follow the same argument order
as %
>
> It does not seem consistent or intuitive for the arguments to be
reversed.
>
> What motivated this decision? I spent 5 minutes about to tear my hair
out trying
> to figure out the results I was getting from Residue.
>
> 7 % 2
> 3.5
> 2 | 7 NB. would be 7 | 2 if I were designing J :)
> 1
>
>
> I'm sorry to ask what seem like such nitpicky little questions, but I
got a
> great answer regarding Passive, so perhaps I am just ignorant of some
loftier
> motivation for such argument calling conventions.
>
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