But you only get thie "wastegul" response if you are in a new environment where x and y are unassigned and you want to know the name of the verb.
Linda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul Miller Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 3:41 AM To: Beta forum Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Names would be Nice If x*y was 'times' what would 2*x*y be? What would (x*y)-1 be? Also, try this: 9!:3]4 x*y Or, this: x=: 2 y=: 3 x*y Or, if that is still a waste, consider the possibility of doing something which does not involve a computer - maybe that would be less wasteful? Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, Here's what I mean: > > Current response in terminal: > > *y > * y > x*y > x * y > > What if the response was: > > *y > Signum > > X*y > times > > To me it seem like a wasted response. > > Linda > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bill lam > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 4:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Names would be Nice > > this page may be interesting to you, > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Primitives > > the location of the script primitiv.ijs had been moved to addons since J7. > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In a term or in jijx, you can get definitions: > > > > > > > > able > > > > 1 : (':'; '(((#~LF-.@e.])5!:5<''u'');,.y),.({.;}.)":x,y u/x')~ > > > > > > > > toupper > > > > 3 : 0 > > > > x=. I. 26 > n=. ((97+i.26){a.) i. t=. ,y > > > > ($y) $ ((x{n) { (65+i.26){a.) x}t > > > > ) > > > > > > > > It seems that it might be possible to have theses and all entries > > provide the name of the verb. Then you could go to socurces to find > > information much more quickly than when you don't know or remember the > name. > > > > > > > > * > > > > * > > > > *. > > > > *. > > > > *: > > > > *: > > > > x* > > > > x * > > > > x*. > > > > x *. > > > > x*: > > > > x *: > > > > ;: > > > > > > > > Linda;: > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
