This worrying about the role of left and right arguments may be a little artificial.
The placement may just come of convenience or familiarity. In mathematics no one compalains about different positions of divisor in divide and residue, or that root and factorial are at different positions. 12 % 3 4 8 | 12 4 %:4 2 ".|.' 4! ' 24 However, it's good for consistency in ceratin patterns, such as read/write. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
