DWL, Alas, your review is not to be found there. At least, I couldn't find it.
Last time I got into a discussion about the advantages I experience in having Booleans be numeric, I encountered unwavering disagreement from everybody who wasn't already an array programmer. --Tracy On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, David Ward Lambert <[email protected]>wrote: > I reviewed NumPy 1.5, Beginner's Guide, posted at barnesandnoble dot > com. While Roger emphasized operations on groups of data, the book > glossed over this greatest benefit of numpy. Nor did the author realize > the possibility to interpret Booleans as numbers for direct computation. > I showed him how to convert an if statement within a loop to a single > expression. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
