Wasn't that the joke on the balance sheet of Bear Stearns? 
On the right there was nothing left, on the left there was nothing right.


R.E. Boss


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens
> Björn Helgason
> Verzonden: zaterdag 5 juli 2008 14:58
> Aan: Chat forum
> Onderwerp: Re: [Jchat] right to/of left -- what about left to right?
> 
> Your brain is in two parts….left and right. The left part has nothing
> right
> in it and the right has nothing left in it.
> 
> 2008/6/29 Viktor Cerovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> >
> >
> > Raul Miller-4 wrote:
> > >
> > > On 6/28/08, Jack Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> how would you express the 'less interesting' case in J?
> > >
> > >    ({.-+/@}.)1 2 3 4 5
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Although this is correct in the case of -, I think the general solution
> to
> > this
> > problem is -~/|.1 2 3 4 5
> >
> >  -/1 2 3 4 5
> > 3
> >  -~/|.1 2 3 4 5
> > _13
> >
> > in the following sense:
> >
> > f/1 2 3 4 5    NB. evaluates as:
> >
> >  1 f 2 f 3 f 4 f 5
> >  (1 f(2 f(3 f(4 f 5))))     NB. default right to left order
> >
> >
> > f~/|.1 2 3 4 5  evaluates as:
> >
> >  f~/5 4 3 2 1              NB. default right to left order
> >  5 f~ 4 f~ 3 f~ 2 f~ 1
> >  (5 f~(4 f~(3 f~(2 f~ 1)))) NB. default right to left order
> >  (4 f~(3 f~(2 f~ 1)))f 5
> >  ((3 f~(2 f~ 1))f 4)f 5
> >  (((2 f~ 1)f 3)f 4)f 5
> >  (((1 f 2)f 3)f 4)f 5       NB. left to right order
> >
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