Re: [Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-29 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
> Oh. I'm probably the last one to notice this. Let's call this I say that probability is zero :) On the one hand, the behavior of f. is what I expect; I have a fixing habit and I would hate a change in its behavior. On the other hand, the ranks mv lv rv seem a "natural" choice for m~ in the f

Re: [Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-25 Thread Raul Miller
"named verb" is a concept relevant to an expression of the form: name~ However <@name has no rank properties different from <@verb in the general case. Note also that verbs with an empty domain still have rank. [:"2 for example... Is this useful? Perhaps not directly, but one of the things J's

Re: [Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-25 Thread neitzel
I learned something new in the last 90 minutes, this is a small summary. (I always tell people that one never stops learning J. Nevertheless I'm still always a bit surprised when this holds for me, too. :-) It dawns on me that I just re-answered the "when is v f. not v?" FAQ which I admittedly

Re: [Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-24 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
Thanks for the feedback; it helps. a. The entry is somewhat tricky because it can also produce a noun, an adverb or a conjunction but mv lv rv makes sense for a named verb. The situation for m~ and m f. is similar and I would expect the corresponding dictionary's rank information for both entrie

Re: [Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-23 Thread Roger Hui
a. The dictionary entry for m~ should not say that its rank is _ . The ranks should be mv lv rv, which are the ranks of the named verb. For example: goo=: 4"1 2 3 'goo'~ b. 0 1 2 3 b. *Even* and *odd* derive verbs whose dyadic domains are empty. The equivalence stated in the dictionary e

[Jprogramming] Rank related questions

2013-07-22 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
III. Definitions ( http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict3.htm ) explains the rank information shown in the vocabulary entries for verbs. Most of the other entries also have what it seems to be the rank information of verbs that they produce. The following are just a few related questions: