Just for the sake of precision in NuVoc: With what release of J was this feature introduced? (NOUN VERB VERB) --> (NOUN"_ VERB VERB)
BTW thank you everybody, I've incorporated your suggestions in http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/zeroco Ian On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does anyone have a really good example of using a constant function >> (e.g. 0: 1: ...) where it is actually necessary? >> Gene McDonnell uses a lot of them in At Play With J, but in the >> examples I've tried, 0 works just as well as 0: ...and so on. > > After At Play With J was written, J was changed so that expressions > of the form (NOUN VERB VERB) would be treated as if they were > the fork (NOUN"_ VERB VERB). In other words, 0 is a constant > function in the examples you were suggesting. > > -- > 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
