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I believe it's a computer science thing where true and false are preferred over 1 and 0. You can ask them how they would solve the problem in the second anecdote above. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
