I find it funny to see your question. Even before I saw APL or J I thought that division (%) notation in mathematical notation was backward.
On 5/23/07, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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