Nothing says that '' is the only element of the domain. I wonder why
the domain wasn't restricted to 0.
Roger Hui wrote:
The relevance is that only the foreign conjunction is covered by the
statement in http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/xmain.htm , viz,
and must be used with an argument even though (as in 6!:0 '')
it may have no significance.
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:05
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Current time: behaviour
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
...and I fail to see what quality of foreigns justifies the
domain restriction.
Of course:
time =: monad : ' 6!:0 '''' '
makes most of this whole thread moot. I41m done.
Roger Hui wrote:
2: is not a instance of the foreign conjunction.
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:21
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Current time: behaviour
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
Yet
2: (0 0$0)
does not give a domain error. There is a fine line
between
consistency
and dogma.
Roger Hui wrote:
It is not any feeling that relaxing the rule in this
specific
case
will be a cause of later regret as sticking to a general
principle.>>> As I recall, there was no change in this area,
just a more
consistent and systematic enforcement of the rule.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, October 29, 2007 13:31
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Current time: behaviour
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
Roger wrote:
a. I disagree that the functions in questions should
be
niladic.
I agree. Though there are other ways to interpret the
phrase "should-be-niladic" (which don't involve admitting
zero-
argument verbs into the language).
it is better to be strict now than to be
sorry about being lax later.
Fair enough. Can you sketch an example (or two) where
permitting an arbitrary argument to such a function would
cause
us to be sorry later? And, out of historical
interest,
what prompted the change when it occured?
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