On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Skip Cave <s...@caveconsulting.com> wrote:
> I like your monadic seq verb, as it duplicates the Octave function,
> including the argument sequence. I do find it interesting that a tacit verb
> requires many more characters than the explicit definition. I usually
> expect the opposite.
Tacit being more verbose than explicit been typical, in my experience,
when dealing with more than two unrelated concepts at the same time.
The issue, here, is that you can use single character names to refer
to a dozen or two independent values, but raw tacit expressions for
referring to more than two concepts can easily require 3 or more
characters.
1&{
12&{::@[
...
And, also, tacit sometimes requires extra delimiters ([:: g h)
If you can exploit regularities in your data, tacit can come out way
ahead. But when you are dealing with arbitrary structures (and
emulating someone else's code can be arbitrary), tacit might not be
the most concise option.
--
Raul
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