On 5/23/07, Markus Schmidt-Groettrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question has been answered already. The mathematical convention is
too important.
I would say: no.
Since I can in fact overcome this limitation relatively trivially:
the ongoing kvetching is, to me, moot.
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.
is that actually a J rule? For asymmetric functors?
.... at least those that are in fact asymmetric as to "control" and "data"
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
Terrence Brannon schrieb:
> 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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