Raul - when you talk about going beyond the boundaries in both directions, would you be thinking of negative indexes for before the beginning of the array? If so, this would conflict with existing usage.
It sounds like you're talking potentially about something like a sparse array. Regards, Devon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I often wish that I had an adverb which would let me index beyond > array boundaries (getting fill elements). I expect that this would > also work on verbs based on intervals (such as dyads using \ and some > dyads using ;.), extending their boundaries in a reasonable fashion. > > In particular, I would like a mechanism for ;._3 to extend off the > edges of an array. But I often want this to go in both directions, so > maybe instead I should be wanting a ;._30, or whatever? > > Does anyone else have any thoughts on this sort of boundary condition > issue? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
