On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 02:57:00PM -0700, enz...@gmx.com wrote:
> cause 1 is 1 element and 1 2 3 is 3 elements so ⍴ 1 2 3 is 3
> and ⍴ 1 should have been 1
But 1-element arrays come in many different shapes and ⍴ returns the shape
rather than number of elements. To get the later
Hi,
the scalar extension mechanism is a very fundamental principle
which existed since
the beginning of APL. If you randomly pick an 1-element value from
any APL program,
then I would bet that the value is a scalar with a probability of
≥ 90%, a
On 4 March 2017 at 05:57, wrote:
what is the reason? do you know their reasoning
>
> cause 1 is 1 element and 1 2 3 is 3 elements so ⍴ 1 2 3 is 3
> and ⍴ 1 should have been 1
But that's wrong. 1 is not a one-element array. 1 is just a number. 1 2 is
a two-element array. Each elemen
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 20:45:45 +0100
Juergen Sauermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
what is the reason? do you know their reasoning
cause 1 is 1 element and 1 2 3 is 3 elements so ⍴ 1 2 3 is 3and
⍴ 1 should have been 1
I never understood their reasoning or how it negatively affected anyth
Hi,
I believe the reason why 'a' is scalar and 'abc' is
not is the same as why 1 is a scalar and 1 2 3 is not.
It is very consistent, but often very inconvenient. And in
practice it is often a pitfall for the unaware programmer.
I fooled myself
thank you - fantastic ...it sure 'fixes' the inconsistency i had no idea
about "a"
I saw the use of " only in the FILE_IO "r" in the apl.htmlbut thought
that was related to just fopen/bash/c syntax
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Do you know the 'details' about why iverson did this to begin with?
How did you
In GNU APL, try this instead :
"a"[1]
The reason this seems inconsistent is because single quote is used to
define a string, i.e. an array of characters. Except the case where there
is only a single character, in which case it represents a scalar
character.
GNU APL allows you to use double quot
i just watched a great video on apl and this was discussedi still don't
know what the harm/problem would be if instead of returning 'nothing'
⍴'a' why doesn't it return 1 - there is something there
please don't mention scalar i know all about it - but to me thi
