Ok...
...except that gerunds are defined as vectors.
Conceptually speaking, if it's a scalar, or a matrix, it's something
different. It would still be gerund-like, in character (we can
trivially extract gerunds from it), but if we try using such things
with primitives that handle gerunds, we are getting into undocumented
territory.
--
Raul
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote:
> That makes sense.
>
> My personal impression was that the original vector-ness was an
> (unintentional) side-effect of the method used to remove the trailing atom
> (select-all-but-last as opposed to select-first).
>
> The proposed scalar should be a transparent replacement for the original
> vector, whose shape wasn't serving a specific purpose (normally, in J, shape
> carries meaning, and where it doesn't it is misleading: at best superfluous,
> but often pernicious).
>
> -Dan
>
>
> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com>
> Sender: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:41:56
> To: Programming forum<programming@jsoftware.com>
> Reply-To: Programming forum <programming@jsoftware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Verb display in function tables
>
> I often do that myself, but in this case, the original phrase was also
> generating a 1 element vector, so I decided that a 1-element vector
> was an appropriate result.
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote:
>> Because in many contexts, a scalar is more convenient than a 1-element
>> vector, I make a habit of tacking on a {. as in {.u`'' .
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would use u`''
>>>
>>> avg 1 :'u`'''''
>>> +---+
>>> |avg|
>>> +---+
>>> avg
>>> |value error: avg
>>>
>>> --
>>> Raul
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
>>> <moku...@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>> I had thought that I would not be able to get a program to show the
>>>> definition of a function given its name, but I found a kludge for the
>>>> purpose using tie. Now I would like to know whether somebody has a
>>>> direct solution. My application for this capability is a defined
>>>> adverb for producing function tables.
>>>>
>>>> t=.1 :(':';'2 2$(>1 0#u`u);y;(,.x);x u/ y')
>>>> l +t l=.i.5
>>>> ┌─┬─────────┐
>>>> │+│0 1 2 3 4│
>>>> ├─┼─────────┤
>>>> │0│0 1 2 3 4│
>>>> │1│1 2 3 4 5│
>>>> │2│2 3 4 5 6│
>>>> │3│3 4 5 6 7│
>>>> │4│4 5 6 7 8│
>>>> └─┴─────────┘
>>>>
>>>> The question then is whether somebody knows a less ugly way to display
>>>> the value of u in executing this adverb than >1 0#u`u or >0{u`u .
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>>>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>>>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
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