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Use 0!:0 instead of ". -- Raul On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. > > Raul, can you give me an example of that, please? > > I have released code which assumes it does. (At least, 5!:6, for which > I suppose you'd say the same?) > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> By "ipc" I think he means what I think is Q's . >> >> In Q, the "natural representation" of any item is a serialized version >> -- evaluating it will recover the original item. This is not the case >> in J -- for example 99x gets displayed as 99 but: >> >> 99 -&(^~) 99x >> _3.98353e182 >> >> Anyways, if I understand Q properly (or maybe it was K), it will ship >> a sentence off to another interpreter using . and the result is the >> result from that other interpreter. And, even if I do not have the >> syntax exactly right, the underlying point is that Q/K it's fairly >> simple to delegate processing to a small farm of machines. This can >> be useful, for example, when very large (multiple terabyte) data >> structure are spread out across multiple machines. >> >> I believe that the usefulness of this ties in with Q's support for >> tree data structures as well as triggers and dependencies. >> >> J does not currently have anything like that. And, for that matter, >> 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If by "ipc" you mean tcp/ip, J does support it. See "Studio/Socket >>> Driver", "Studio/Sockets and the Internet", and "Scripts/Socket System" on >>> the wiki (www.jsoftware.com/jwiki). >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Kim Kuen Tang <kuent...@vodafone.de> wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>>> * Q also supports ipc which i cannot find in J. >>>> ... >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Devon McCormick, CFA >>> ^me^ at acm. >>> org is my >>> preferred e-mail >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
