Surely you don't expect a dictionary to supply all legal sentences, do you?
I'm not one to speculate on what people don't say about their interactions
with J, so I don't know how you found the issue.
I'm not of the "J doesn't do what I expect, therefore it has a bug" school.
When J does something I don't expect, it is more often my own limited view
of J that needs expanding. I'd consider myself excessively arrogant if I
felt otherwise.
A lot of concepts in J are how I would express them, but I have the tendency
to not use them until I see Roger using them. Case in point: #^:_1
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Bone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] RE: [Jbeta] Possible link error in Dictionary
On 15 Aug 2006 at 11:12, Randy MacDonald said:
Thing I learned today:
3 : '...' " 1
doesn't need parentheses.
A good way to learn that
foo =: 3 : 0
yada yada yada
) " 1
doesn't work is to try it.
Indeed. How do you think I found that it didn't, in the first place?
OTOH, if there had been an example in the Dictionary when I was looking
for one, I wouldn't have needed to try it ...
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