On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:50 PM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > for 35 atoms, I'd describe your shapes as 2 tables shape represented as (3 2 > ,: 3 9) or now ( 3 2 ; 3 9).
Eh... so you would not support my idea of a meta array with shape (2 3 4,:5 6 7) which (if it was a meta array of integers) would contain 234 integers? How many elements would your concept of a meta array hold if its meta shape was 2 3 4,:5 6 7? > I understand your metarank concept to be designed for storage description, > but it doesn't seem to be needed to describe the "shape of the shapes" if > that can be "self calculated". The rank is the shape of the shape. It's mostly a "separate" concept because when you are implementing the language you have to have an implementation of the concepts of the language. > metashape 2 2 2,:9 9 9 I would understand as 8+729 items. Oops, yes, that was a mistake on my part. A 35 element array was from metashape 2 2 2,:3 3 3. Sorry about that. I should blame my own carelessness there. (But I am tempted to try to re-emphasize the lack of engagement with useful concepts for operations on these "meta arrays".) -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
