> ...there has been a long standing resistance to having such. I think the "resistance to having such" is more a matter of not having the time to do it properly.
> ... is definitely the poorer for those who would use such. In what way would you use bit booleans that would not be possible with byte booleans? On 13 August 2015 at 18:06, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul > > >You may have a better word for what i call bit-boolean if so i accede to > your greater knowledge. i and my colleagues just referred to it as boolean > 40 or 50 years ago. Things may have changed in the language. However it is > incontrovertible that there is no bit type in J. i also contend there has > been a long standing resistance to having such. There may be extenuating > reasons, but it is definitely the poorer for those who would use such. > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> > to: Programming forum <[email protected]> > date: 13 August 2015 at 15:35 > subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Bitwise operations utility > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:15 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > >>i wrote my undergraduate thesis (in APL) using the manipulation of > Boolean matrices (categories, and many other algebra objects - with > arbitrarily large sizes). i always disliked J because of its avowed > anti-Boolean typology. Another thing to be worked around. > > Boolean means different things to different people. > > >There's George Boole's approach, for example, and there's later work > which constrains the scope to truth values. > > >Which are you talking about, here? And, why do you call J's approach > "anti-Boolean"? > > >(We can take this to chat, if that helps - if we won't be discussing > programming.) > > Thanks, > > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
