For me, the answer to that is application dependent. But I haven't had any problem with the current behavior.
That said, thinking about this - it's easy to sort by x. It's harder to recover from a sort (not a lot harder, but still noticeable). Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you to everyone who responded. A further question: do you prefer > that the cells be ordered by their occurrence in x, or do you prefer that > they be sorted (by x)? > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a question concerning your use of *key*. Do you find yourself >> wishing that in x f/.y, the f would be invoked with a left argument which >> is key value corresponding to the items in the right argument? This does >> not mean that the J definition or implementation will be changed, but to >> find out that if I have an opportunity to define/implement key in another >> context ;-) whether I should consider changing it. >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
