My first thought was that you just weren't paying attention earlier, but on reflection I see that this important concept gets submerged under the detail of cells and frames. I agree that this is worth discussing somewhere.
I'm not sure the examples you want are in the book. Take it as an exercise for the reader. :) Henry Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terrence Brannon > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:58 AM > To: General forum > Subject: [Jgeneral] "J for C Programmers" - verb rank > independent of noun shape > > < quote > href=http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/starting_to_write_in_j.htm > > You give the verb the rank of the cells it operates on, and then you > don't care about the shape of the operand, because J's implicit > looping will apply the verb to all the cells, no matter how many there > are. > < / quote > > > Somehow, I did not capture this as an understanding from the previous > section. The verb rank is compared to the noun rank(s) to determine > what r-cell will be used. Then the r-cell dictates what frame will be > chosen to make lists of r-cells. Some examples supporting this > statement would be appreciated. > > < quote > href=http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/starting_to_write_in_j.htm > > A pleasant side effect of this way of coding is that the verbs you > write can be applied to operands of any shape: write a verb to > calculate the current value of a loan, and you can use that very verb > to calculate the current value of all loans at a branch, or at all > branches in the city, or all over the state. > < / quote > > > I'm sure that some later examples will show this fantastic > scalability, so I won't ask for any now. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
