On 5/23/07, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
And this is the genius now inherent in J: from the brilliant work that got
it to this point:
that in fact it is almost always universally clear _immediately_
what those first principles actually are or _were_.
A very difficult result to achieve.
... and harder to maintain and extend...
----- 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.
> ...
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