If you cannot find the right reference material, then just post questions
here.

We have a "J for C Programmers" book, but we do not have a "J for K
Programmers".  And in some ways, J is more complicated to use than K.  (K
tends to be simpler for 1 dimensional data and for tree structures.)

-- 
Raul

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Alexander Epifanov <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thank you very much, I helped a lot.
> I do not use spaces in K also.
>
> I just suppose that Learning J is not the best book for me. I go to
> vocabulary and every example  for every verb is too complicated.
>
> Regards,
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Kip Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Verb 5!:2 can help by boxing the parts of verb cut:
> >
> >    cut
> > ' '&$: :([: -.&a: <;._2@,~)
> >
> >    5!:2 <'cut'
> > +--------+-+----------------------------------+
> > |+-+-+--+|:|+--+---------+-------------------+|
> > || |&|$:|| ||[:|+--+-+--+|+---------------+-+||
> > |+-+-+--+| ||  ||-.|&|++|||+---------+-+-+|~|||
> > |        | ||  ||  | |||||||+-+--+--+|@|,|| |||
> > |        | ||  ||  | |++|||||<|;.|_2|| | || |||
> > |        | ||  |+--+-+--+|||+-+--+--+| | || |||
> > |        | ||  |         ||+---------+-+-+| |||
> > |        | ||  |         |+---------------+-+||
> > |        | |+--+---------+-------------------+|
> > +--------+-+----------------------------------+
> >
> > Now we see the middle colon separates a left and right part and we
> > insert a space:
> >
> > ' '&$: : ([: -.&a: <;._2@,~)
> >
> > An isolated colon : separates the monadic and dyadic cases of a verb.
> > The part to the left of the colon tells us that when cut is called
> > monadically (right argument only), cut calls itself with an added left
> > argument of ' ' .
> >
> > You need to define g without the :
> >
> >    g =: ([: -.&a:<;._2@,~)
> >
> > Then
> >
> >    '.' g '192.168.1.1'
> > ┌───┬───┬─┬─┐
> > │192│168│1│1│
> > └───┴───┴─┴─┘
> >
> > The dyadic call to cut is the same as a call to g .
> >
> >
> > The Vocabulary page
> >
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/vocabul.htm
> >
> > has information about conjunctions Monad-Dyad : and Cut ;.  (notice
> > conjunction Cut ;. appears in the definition of verb cut).
> >
> > For information about 5!:2 , click on !: at the top of the Vocabulary
> page.
> >
> >
> > I have to admit conjunctions are hard for beginners, and verbs that have
> > both monadic and dyadic calls are hard for visitors from K.  I apologize
> > on behalf of the J community for our habit of omitting needless spaces.
> >  Just one space might have helped you understand sooner!
> >
> >
> > On 11/18/2011 3:07 AM, Alexander Epifanov wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Its the third time I am trying to move from K to J without success.
> >> Stopped and the 8th chapter of "Learning J", because its the half of
> >> the book, but I cannot read and understand other programs, also cannot
> >> write simple program.
> >>
> >> Let me provide an example. on K I split IP-string: 1_'(0,&"."=" ",s)_
> >> " ",s:"192.168.1.1"
> >> I was trying to rewrite it on J, but I did not find _ (cut) or
> >> something like that, which splits list by indexes.
> >>
> >> I found another cut in J, so the solution is '.'cut'192.168.1.1', but
> >> I have to understand it.
> >> cut
> >> ''&$: :([: -.&a:<;._2@,~)
> >>
> >> Do I understand correct that function makes train of verbs without
> >> round brackets?
> >> So its (f g) where f =: ' '&$: and g =: :([: -.&a:<;._2@,~)
> >> But it does not work:
> >> g '192.168.1.1'
> >> |syntax error
> >>
> >> Why, how to read J expression? In K I just cut expression from let and
> >> see all imtermediate results, in J it does not work.
> >> Also, I cannot find anonymous function {} in K, but if I understand
> >> correct in J it is prefferable to compose verbs.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>   Alexander.
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