Hello Donna;
(I'm not looking ahead, so this may have already been answered.)
The J concept of adverb is roughly analogous to APL's concept of operator.
In:
+/1 2 3
the '/' is an APL operator, or a J adverb.
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From: "dly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] smooth operator
On 2-Jul-06, at 12:26 PM, Miller, Raul D wrote:
Donna L.Y. wrote:
So an operator is a special type of adverb, a function that
acts on other function to produce a new function?
What is the context in which you ask this? What distinction
are you trying to draw?
!. The topics being discussed under significant digits
have gone off in all directions. I prefer to have a seperte subject
heading so that I can locote information by topic
This topic is meant to help me understand operators in J and the J terms
that describe them
I also want to sort out what statements that have been made recently on
these topics are acurate
I guess the context of this may continue from this:
On 1-Jul-06, at 5:06 PM, Miller, Raul D wrote:
If this still does not make sense to you, I challenge you to
come up with an example relationship which cannot be made into
a function using this approach -- I'll describe the trivial
function for you.
%+i.10
_ 1 0.5 0.333333 0.25 0.2 0.166667 0.142857 0.125 0.111111
I see no adverbs here.
Can you give me an example of an adverb?
Can alll adverbs be made into operators since you say that relations can
be made into functions and operators are functions of functions.
What are you trying to accomplish?
I am trying to improve my understanding of J and my ability to discuss J
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Raul
Donna
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