Thanks for the comments guys. Currently, I internally redefined SortUp ...
So, who should change the primitives.ijs file from SortUp to SortUpUsingKeys? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry Rich Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:14 PM To: General forum Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] SortUp and GradeUp in the Primitives I suggest renaming SortUp to SortUpUsingKeys. Henry Rich bill lam wrote: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote: >> ---Alex Rufon wrote: >>> SortUp and GradeUp are both defined as /: in the primitives. In >>> parallel, SortDown and GradeDown also suffers the same issue. >> SortUp refers to dyadic use of /:, GradeUp refers to monadic use of /: >> >> /:~ myarray >> Is the special case of SortUp where you are sorting it by the grade of >> itself, i.e. >> myarray /: myarray >> However often you will want to use >> myarray /: my2ndarray >> >> You cannot do this if you redefine SortUp as /:~ > > I think Alex's argument is reasonable. Dyadic sort is alien to most > programmers. If primitives are meant for beginners, rename SortUp as > DyadSortUp and define SortUp as /:~ will cause less surprise for those > not yet initiated. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
