Mark D. Niemiec wrote: > Someone who is versed in reading Mathematics, but not as > familiar with J, will parse this as '1.1 - .1' or '1.1 minus 0.1' > for which the expected result would be 1 (resulting from subtraction)
This depends on the kind of mathematics. It's certainly true that some common programming languages (java, etc.) would treat 1.1-.1 as an expression which should result in the floating point value 1.0. However, someone familiar with a broad range of mathematics will tend to be conversant with symbols taking on a wide range of meanings, and would be less likely to fall into that trap. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
