> On Nov 27, 2017, at 2:19 PM, Andrew Dabrowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps, but rank seems to be one aspect of J that other languages have > avoided.
The word “avoided” suggests the decision was conscious. > APL/J have been very influential, rank may have been a dead end. Disagree with both. :) By the way, Dyalog added a rank operator that works just like J’s—and they encourage its use over the axis notation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46967744/rank-operator-vs-axis-notation <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46967744/rank-operator-vs-axis-notation> (Adám is a Dyalog engineer) Also, I believe Dyalog was not the first to copy this into their APL—some googling suggests Sharp APL had it as well, whatever that’s worth. > I saw somewhere that rank issues get so intractable that people publish > journal articles about what is possible with. Would love to see the articles. > K seems to have taken a different and more successful route. What route? :) -- Daniel Lyons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
