If you are only concerned with names of nouns, then this is not an
issue for you.

The definition of list that I was using is the one that J defines.
It's still accessible as list_z_ after you have executed the lines you
documented below.

-- 
Raul

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Raul, could you give me the value of (list) for which that happens?
> Your expression works ok for the (few) values I've tried, eg:
>
> ]   list=: 1p1 + i.6
> 3.14159 4.14159 5.14159 6.14159 7.14159 8.14159
>     ".'list=:',5!:6<'list'
> 3.14159 4.14159 5.14159 6.14159 7.14159 8.14159
>     list -: ".'list=:',5!:6<'list'
> 1
>
> (I'm only worried about numeric list where ($$list) is 1 or 0.)
>
>   JVERSION
> Installer: j602a_mac_intel.dmg
> Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45
> Library: 6.02.057
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Certainly:
>>
>>   ".'list=:',5!:6<'list'
>> |spelling error
>>
>> 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
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