m"n where m is a gerund.

Henry Rich

On 1/17/2021 10:36 AM, Justin Paston-Cooper wrote:
What is the most elegant way to apply an array of functions to an
array of non-functions?

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 18:27, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
It gives them a wrong mental model of rank, which they must unlearn
later.  This can have serious consequences,  particularly if they get
the idea that u"n is 'like u with the rank set to n' (if that were true,
u"1"_1 would be the same as u"_ 1, which it isn't).

Ken thought you should learn J like you learn a natural language, by
seeing and saying, and creating your own rules internally.  I think he
was wrong when it comes to verb rank.  The idea is so new, and so
subtle, that users left to themselves get it wrong.  I had one very
bright student who, discovering that (,1) + 1 2 3 gave an error, found
that +/ would not give an error, and ever after applied / to every
verb.  He created his own rule, you see.

Henry Rich

On 1/17/2021 12:24 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
Does it really cost them that much?

Given that beginner problems generally do not involve multi-megabytes
of data, I mean...

Thanks,


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