bob therriault wrote: > I have a few questions about the covering the numbers. Does it make > a difference to you which argument is placed on top when the scalar > arguments are superimposed?
Well, when I was first starting to learn J here, I was under the impression from various posts on the Programming Forum that "y" (the right argument) was USUALLY (not always!) the main data that was operated upon (or controlled) by "x" (the left argument). (I may be all wet with this understanding, but I interpreted that to be what the experts and gurus here indicated--and that's what I shared with others as I tried to proselytize J before I retired from librarianship.) So, *if* one set of data should remain stationary while the other moves, it makes sense to me that the righthand data should remain stationary and that the lefthand data should move (or go on top of the righthand data). This would be especially useful, I think, with primitives like # (copy), using a boolean left argument and a literal (or numeric) right argument. > I am also considering dissolving in the result as the numbers collide > (with a glow to indicate the operation). That's essentially what I've been thinking of suggesting (you beat me to it!) and seems very effective to me as a former teacher and somewhat J newbie! Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
