Woke-up a few minutes ago and can't go back to sleep ... must be getting old or waking up in a hotel isn't conducive to sleeping. :P
Still, can't watch the video ... blocked by the great firewall of China. Now I'm curious as to what's it about ... Must resist getting coffee ... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Brand Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:42 AM To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] loopless programming question On cups of tea during work, one of my favourite songs ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4 On 2 February 2010 20:37, Matthew Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > The explicits if. etc... are incredibly useful fall backs for beginners > (and others?) when you just can't figure out how to do something the other > way. If they were not available I think I would have given up on J when I > was first trying to get things done using it - because a beginner can spend > all day fiddling around trying to get rid of "domain error" etc... but can > instantly get rid of errors most of the time by resorting to more > traditional methods. I.e. explicits are an "if all else fails due to my lack > of J competence" tool for me to turn to [as well as asking on the forum > :-)]. > > u...@. always throws me because of the ranks, I can't think of an example > right now, but I know that I have spent ages fiddling around with it at > times and then given up and used if. instead. As a rule, if I can't get > those things to work after 1 cup of tea then I will just use explicit. > > > > On 2 February 2010 17:13, David Ward Lambert <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I don't understand why j has a select/case statement. >> Gerunds ought to be sufficient. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
