Nice poem! Linda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul Miller Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 10:28 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Multiple Assignments
Here's another multiple assignment example: poem=: ;:;._2]0 :0 desert morning a coyote licks ice on the tumbleweed ) poem ┌──────┬───────┬──────────┬───┐ │desert│morning│ │ │ ├──────┼───────┼──────────┼───┤ │a │coyote │licks │ice│ ├──────┼───────┼──────────┼───┤ │on │the │tumbleweed│ │ └──────┴───────┴──────────┴───┘ 'a b c'=: poem a desert morning b a coyote licks ice c on the tumbleweed Thanks, -- Raul P.S. poem borrowed from http://tinywords.com/2010/02/16/396/ On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > I recommend reading about multiple assignment in NuVoc. > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Assignment > > Multiple assignment can assign different values, as Raul points out. It > also removes one level of boxing: > > 'a b' =: <5 > a > 5 > b > 5 > a =: b =: <5 > a > +-+ > |5| > +-+ > b > +-+ > |5| > +-+ > > Henry Rich > > > On 8/10/2014 12:50 AM, Jon Hough wrote: > >> A Quick Question: >> Is there any difference between: >> ' var1 var2' =: 10 >> >> and >> var1 =: var2 =: 10 >> ? >> JforC breifly mentions the handy multiple assignment (the former, above) >> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/more_verbs_for_boxes.htm >> but doesn't mention the two are equivalent. From my brief experimenting >> it seems they are. I'm guessing for a long list of variables the former is >> neater. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
