Re: [Jprogramming] Beginner question

2014-09-24 Thread Skip Cave
a 0 1 2 3 4 5 |."0 a 0 1 2 3 4 5 |."1 a 2 1 0 5 4 3 |."2 a 3 4 5 0 1 2 Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Chris Wright wrote: > Hi > > Real beginner here > > a =: 1 2 3 4 > > |. a > > 4 3 2 1 NB. yep, all is well > > > > > n

Re: [Jprogramming] Predicting the shape of the result

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Wright
thanks Robert! OK. boxes are atoms withb an empty shape. I've looked at the docs and can't see where I could read to understand why shape of 1 2 +/ i. 4 is 2 1 and not 1 2 thanks for your help! Chris On 25/09/2014 4:01 PM, "robert therriault" wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Well there is information

Re: [Jprogramming] Predicting the shape of the result

2014-09-24 Thread robert therriault
Hi Chris, Well there is information on the vocabulary page for Table http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d420.htm also Nuvoc has good information on this verb http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/slash#dyadic The actual shape of a box is empty since the box is an atom. In the case

[Jprogramming] Beginner question

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Wright
Hi Real beginner here a =: 1 2 3 4 |. a 4 3 2 1 NB. yep, all is well now: a=: 2 3 $ i.6 a 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 |. a 3 4 5 0 1 2 NB. wow! looks like "rotate up", to me (intermission while I find out about rank,axis and frame!) oh ok 1 0 |. a 3 4 5 0 1 2 NB.

[Jprogramming] Predicting the shape of the result

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Wright
Hi Could I work out from the docs that < 1 2 +/ i. 4 ┌───┐ │1 2 3 4│ │2 3 4 5│ └───┘ will give the above (2 1) shape result and not a (1 2) result like below? ┌───┬───┐ │1 2 3 4│2 3 4 5│ └───┴───┘ With the (2,1) it's obvious that two 1-cells are returned,

Re: [Jprogramming] wd 'setlocale'

2014-09-24 Thread bill lam
form locale can be numbered locale since day 1. Specifically form locale is the current locale when _executing_ wd'pc' cmd. try the following script, (untested) coclass 'foo' create=: 3 : 0 wd'pc bar closeok;cc btn button;pshow' ) bar_btn_button=: 3 : 0 smoutput coname'' ) cocurrent'base' ''co

[Jprogramming] wd 'setlocale'

2014-09-24 Thread 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
is there a way to change syslocalep for a form? change it to a numbered locale? in j803? I am referring to syslocalep. it would simplify having an object create its own form, and handling multiple instances. -- For information

Re: [Jprogramming] Weekend Puzzle - Age of Groundhog born 2002 2 2

2014-09-24 Thread Raul Miller
I would keep in mind that calendars have a political aspect, and some political bodies will sometimes create arbitrary calendars (I remember a 41st of September used by the U.S. Congress a few decades ago - they had set themselves a deadline where they needed to resolve an issue before the end of S

Re: [Jprogramming] zlib addon thanks

2014-09-24 Thread Devon McCormick
It seems to work when I use a slightly more reasonable input, e.g. t=. 1000$'Now is the time for all goode men to come to the aid of the party ' 6!:2 't -: (3!:2) zlib_uncompress zlib_compress (3!:1) t' 0.0140519 or even a less reasonable one: $t=. a.{~1e5?@$$a. 10 6!:2 't -: (

Re: [Jprogramming] Weekend Puzzle - Age of Groundhog born 2002 2 2

2014-09-24 Thread robert therriault
I certainly see your point Linda, The tests that I run my program through are an example of creating triggers to will reveal when my programming has created errors. If I was designing a language that could be used in as wide a variety of ways as J, I think that knowing when to generate meaningf

Re: [Jprogramming] Weekend Puzzle - Age of Groundhog born 2002 2 2

2014-09-24 Thread Linda Alvord
Using J often causes error message and they are very helpful. They cause a reassessment of the statement in question. Most often it causes a quick fix as you notice the problem. Since there is reasonalble response to todayno 2002 2 29 I believe an error message would cause me to find the problem.

Re: [Jprogramming] JHS on a local network

2014-09-24 Thread greg heil
Brian >An interesting piece of tech which promises to exceed the grasp of the iPads >of the world is ~nvidia-cb-vmware. The K1 would be a very powerful client for >graphic intensive services. >my CB is running a crouton of Xbuntu as a server with the client being the >browser on the client (or

Re: [Jprogramming] JHS on a local network

2014-09-24 Thread Brian Schott
Joe, I am sorry not to have replied in so long. I thought I had because I remember last replying to the effect that I had tried your last idea and I somehow thought this most recent code was no different, but I now see the key line: jev_get =: create That did work and the result is almost perfe

Re: [Jprogramming] Weekend Puzzle - Age of Groundhog born 2002 2 2

2014-09-24 Thread robert therriault
Hi LInda, Seems okay to me, since (2001 3 1) diff 2001 2 28 NB. non leap year 1 (2000 3 1) diff 2000 2 28 NB. leap year 2 diff=: 13 :'(todayno x)-todayno y' (2005 3 1) diff 2004 2 28 367 (2004 3 1) diff 2003 2 28 367 NB. both these intervals contain 2004 2 29 because of a leap

Re: [Jprogramming] Weekend Puzzle - Age of Groundhog born 2002 2 2

2014-09-24 Thread Linda Alvord
I began to consider leap year, and I am basing my answers on todayno . But I think I am getting errors based on it. Does this seem ok to you? diff=: 13 :'(todayno x)-todayno y' (2005 3 1) diff 2004 2 29 366 (2004 3 1) diff 2003 2 29 366 (2003 3 1) diff 2002 2 29