ThxThis is interesting too!
2008/11/16 Reiter, Clifford A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I suspect the parallel assignment is damaging (or at least confusing)
> matters. Having a gerund is having a noun. One needs to evoke it
> one way or another e.g. `:6) to get a verb back.
>
> Consider
> g=:+/`%`#
> sum=:0{g
> div=:1{g
> count=:2{g
> mean=.(sum ,div, count)`:6
> mean 2 3 4 7
> 4
>
> Or
> erase'mean sum div count'
> 1 1 1 1
> mean=.sum div count
> sum=:(0{g)`:6
> div=:(1{g)`:6
> count=:(2{g)`:6
> mean 2 3 4 7
> 4
>
> or
>
> (g`:6)2 3 4 7
> 4
>
>
> Björn Helgason wrote:
>
>> I am trying to understand gerund and tie
>>
>>
>> mean=.sum div count
>> 'sum div count'=.+/`%`#
>> mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> |domain error: count
>> | mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> ".count,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> 5
>> ".mean,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> |domain error: count
>> | ". mean,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> count=.".count
>> #
>> count=.".count
>> mean,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> |domain error: count
>> | mean,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> count,' 3 4 5 2 7'
>> 3 4 5 2 7
>> mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> |domain error: count
>> | mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> mean=.sum div count
>> |syntax error
>> | mean=. sum div count
>> sum=.+/
>> div=.%
>> mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> |domain error: count
>> | mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> count=.#
>> mean 3 4 5 2 7
>> 4.2
>>
>>
>>
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