It is traditional in APL (and APL-like) systems that a length is a list or a scalar.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Ganesh Rapolu <[email protected]> wrote: > Although it is the case that for a verb v and integer k, v"k and v"(, k) > are the same, it might be confusing if the length referred to in the phrase > 'x may be a list of length not more than $$y' is not a scalar. > > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Both $$y or #$y are correct in this case. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Ganesh Rapolu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > In the last paragraph, $$y should be #$y. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
