Another approach might have been: Box x and box y if it is nested no deeper than x.
-- Raul On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
