I knew I should have noted it when I saw it. I think it was a response on
a blog. I will see if I can dig it up. It was a few months ago.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:03 AM R.E. Boss wrote:
> " I found it discouraging to read a recent missive from Niklaus Wirth
> where he takes a jab at this use
Yes, Bjorn!
Back in the day, when I work on a Vax 11/780 the walk to the printer room
and back usually solved the issue.
These days it is called Yoda programming I think but I know it as
'Cardboard Programmer' syndrome, when talking to a cardboard cut-out quite
often suffices.
On Wed, 23 Dec 202
In general trying to explain something you are trying to solve to someone
often makes you see the solution even if that somone does not understand
what you are talking about.
Þann mið., 23. des. 2020, 15:23 emacstheviking skrifaði :
> Henry,
>
> Yes I managed to figure it out myself in between em
Henry,
Yes I managed to figure it out myself in between emails! Funny how sending
an email somehow brings things to light... but about 2 femtoseconds after
pressing Send.
Thank you very much.
J continues to both delight me and mentally destroy me .
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 15:02, Henry Rich w
Order of evaluation is right to left. These are all monads.
?2, ?100, ?100
?2, ? 100 , rand0
If rand0 is 0 the next ? will return a float.
Henry Rich
On 12/23/2020 9:39 AM, emacstheviking wrote:
Henry,
I am not exactly sure what you mean but after posting I spotted that I was
assigning typ
Henry,
I am not exactly sure what you mean but after posting I spotted that I was
assigning type to a random value then using that as the argument to roll, I
fixed that. If you start a jconsole session and type
?2, ?100, ?100
sooner or later you get a float... placing parens. around it
(?2), (?
Are you SURE that value of stargen matches the printed results?
Henry Rich
On 12/23/2020 9:14 AM, emacstheviking wrote:
I am confused as to why trying to return a list of random numbers produces
floating point values now and then, seemingly random! :D
Passing >0 is, as I understand it, a half-o
I am confused as to why trying to return a list of random numbers produces
floating point values now and then, seemingly random! :D
Passing >0 is, as I understand it, a half-open interval, as an integer so
why the floats?
stargen=: 3 : 0
'maxx maxy'=.y
smoutput 'maxx:',(":maxx),' maxy:',(":maxy)
t
" I found it discouraging to read a recent missive from Niklaus Wirth where he
takes a jab at this useful simplification as an example of an unwarranted
complication. It's sad that an eminent luminary like this has failed to grasp,
after all these years, how useful this convention is."
What w
