It's in the dictionary, but parts of it are on different pages. Consider, for example, http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict3.htm
Or, for that matter, http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/intro20.htm Or, maybe click on the "Dic" link in the top nav and browse around a bit... (Note also that the "Voc" link in the top nav corresponds to the "Vocabulary" link in the dictionary table of contents.) Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Matthew Baulch <[email protected]> wrote: > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/at mentions this rank situation, > as Henry pointed out. > > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d620.htm does not appear to. > The last sentence in the page you mentioned should already had > said something about the ranks. Did you miss it? > > Вс, 03 янв 2016, Matthew Baulch написал(а): >> (0, 1) Thanks for your kind words. It does seem a very supportive and >> knowledgeable community. >> >> (3) This makes sense now. Thanks too for pointing me to NuVoc. It seems an >> improvement in some respects, though it appears not to be distributed with >> J. >> >> (4) I particularly enjoy the terseness of the original Voc., and its >> availability offline. Perhaps a static copy of NuVoc could be distributed >> with J, and the original Voc. could include a warning about its >> obsolescence? >> >> I'd love to see J thrive in the future. It seems the case with all >> software, whether programming language or not, that documentation very >> important. J's is very good. This is the only shortcoming I can see. >> >> Matt >> On 3 Jan 2016 1:11 pm, "Henry Rich" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 0. Welcome to J! >> > >> > 1. If you are able to get that far entirely on your own, my hat is off > to >> > you. You're a J natural, and I think you'll enjoy the language. >> > >> > 2. Your analysis is brilliant, though not quite perfect. rv must mean, >> > not the right rank of v, but instead the rank of a result-cell of v. > And >> > even then, the equivalence would not be exact, because of changes to >> > result-cells when they are assembled into the overall result of v. >> > >> > 3. The best resource for learning J is NuVoc. It fills in the gaps in >> > the Dictionary, corrects errors like this one, and has tutorial >> > information. For u@v, see >> > >> > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/at >> > >> > 4. The Dictionary is not actively maintained. Don't expect an update. >> > But NuVoc is a Wiki, so do what you can to improve it! >> > >> > Henry Rich >> > >> > >> > >> > On 1/2/2016 8:59 PM, Matthew Baulch wrote: >> > >> >> The equivalence (from the voc. page for @) >> >> >> >> x u@v y ↔ u x v y >> >> >> >> only seems to apply in some cases. For instance, with >> >> >> >> x =: 1 2 3 4 >> >> y =: 5 6 7 8 >> >> u =: */ >> >> v =: + >> >> >> >> this is most certainly false. After exploring a number of cases, >> >> it seems likely that >> >> >> >> x u@v y ↔ u"rv x v y >> >> >> >> where rv is the right rank of v. Is this true in all cases? >> >> If so, I'd be grateful if the dictionary could be updated accordingly. >> >> >> >> Matt Baulch >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
