Yes, by design. It's so 1;2;3;4
produces what you want. There you don't need to box the last element explicitly. Alternatives are (, <) and ,&< . ; is midway between those. Henry Rich On 5/24/2012 1:48 AM, Steven Taylor wrote: > it's always puzzled me why it is necessary to box the last item in order to > make the structure at index 1 the same as that at 0 > > ((1;(1 2)));<(2;(3 4)) > > Is this by design? > > thanks, > -Steven > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
