to my mind, 'rank' is the more general concept and the 'shape' property is a way to distinguish arrays of the same rank (ignoring datatype for the time being). but maybe that's what you are saying, or not...
enjoy ken -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Raul Miller Sent: 07 May 2012 02:14 To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] (no subject) On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > Isn't the problem with shapes rather than rank? Rank is a way of characterizing shapes. -- 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