I prefer: +/ *:3 4 Linda
-----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of km Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:28 AM To: programm...@jsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Explicit v tacit I very much like Raul's summary of explicit and tacit below. Explicit is "show me an example" and tacit is "show me the procedure". I know explicit verbs can have tacit parts and tacit verbs can have explicit parts! mean =: 3 : '(+/ % #)y' sumofsq =: +/&(3 : '*: y') mean 1 2 2 4 6 3 3 sumofsq 4 25 Kip Murray Sent from my iPad On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, I like being able to understand verbs in terms of "what > they do to nouns". But I agree that it's also worthwhile being able > to have abstract concepts of how they work. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
