How is that being consistent? A (relative) tolerance of 1 does not give useful results. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Tolerant_Comparison#ToleranceLessThan1
As well, <.0.5+y already rounds y to the nearest integer. ----- Original Message ----- From: Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010 11:10 Subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] Request for enhancement to # To: [email protected] > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right now a j. -b is a domain error and it would be an elegant, > > consistent extension of the notation (so much so that it's > almost surprising it doesn't exist yet), and the interpreter could > > implement it much more efficiently than #&.|. (unless Roger > wants to support that construct with special code). > > As for elegant and consistent notations, could we have monadic > <.!.1mean rounding to the nearest integer? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
