Linda, Reflexive is indeed the accurate word. I made a careless error in replacing it, sorry.
I avoided list because the program is not, I think, specific to lists. It may well help to make one's English description carry information about intent that isn't present in the actual code, but I didn't want to rush into that assumption. (And for the record, I like KEI's turn toward "list" instead of "vector," etc.) --Tracy On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net>wrote: > In the dictionary, the word reflexive applies when there is a monadic > argument and passive applies when there are two arguments. I tried to use > the vocabulary for my names. I did wonder about "tally of a reflexive key" > and "reflexive key of a tally". > > I took the word "list" from the Dictionary in the third column concerning > nouns. > > A. Nouns > > Nouns are classified in three independent ways: numeric or literal or > symbol; open or boxed; arrays of various ranks. The atoms of any array must > belong to a single class: numeric, literal, symbol, or boxed. Arrays of > ranks 0, 1, and 2 are also called atom, list, and table, or, in math, > scalar, vector, and matrix." > > Linda > > -----Original Message----- > From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com > [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Harms > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:19 AM > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Challenge 4 Bountiful Birthdays > > Linda, > > I do not agree that the English reading you proposed fits this verb. The > particular misfit I see is "a tally of a reflexive key of a list." Instead, > I'd say "a passively-keyed tally of items." > > Although I've changed both "reflexive" to "passive" and "list" to "items," > the part of my phrasing I consider by far most important is the attempt to > make tally an aspect of keying. > > --Tracy > > > 2012/1/15 Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> > > > Actually I didn't use [: in the explicit definition. J did it(always > place > > blame elsewhere). This is read as "a reflexive grade up of a nub > stitched > > to a tally of a reflexive key of a list'. > > fd=: 13 :'/:~(~.y),.#/.~y' > > fd > > [: /:~ ~. ,. #/.~ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
