Equivalent to boxscan with u=: [: (+/%#), is
;([: (+/%#),)&.>/\. &.|.3;_4 <\i.20
3 1.8 4.76 8.552 12.5104 16.50208
or as adverb
foo=:1 : ('';':';'; u &.>/\.&.|.x;_4<\y')
3 ([:(+/%#),) foo i.20
3 1.8 4.76 8.552 12.5104 16.50208
R.E. Boss
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:programming-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Hough
> Sent: woensdag 3 december 2014 3:10
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Modifying x inside Infix
>
> I do not think updating y is what I need in this case.In pseudocode, an
> example is
> x = 3; //just some start value for xy; //some arrayfor (i = 0; i < max;
i+= 4){
> x = myVerb(x, y[i], y[i+1], y[i+2], y[i+3]); //my verb is
> equivalent(~ish) to verb u.}
> return x;
> So I thought using u\ would be a good way to do the forloop. The problem,
of
> course, is that the previous iteration's result of myVerb is the next
iterations
> myVerb parameter.
> I'm not wedded to the idea of using u\, and I am beginning to wonder if it
is
> completely inappropriate for doing this.
> > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 01:27:39 +0000
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Modifying x inside Infix
> >
> > The argument to 4 u\ y will be entirely y, and u is monadic.
> >
> > you can do something like this though:
> >
> > 2 (3&+)\ i.5
> > 3 4
> > 4 5
> > 5 6
> > 6 7
> >
> >
> > If you can change your spec to "updating y" on every iteration, and you
> want to apply to:
> >
> > x1 u (x2 u y)
> > then you can make a table where x1, x2 and y are the 3 rows, and then
call
> with u/. You can search for boxscan in archives for method where x and y
are
> not the same shape. This is generally preferable to trying to keep a side
> effect between calls (so you don't need to worry about initializing it)
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Jon Hough <[email protected]>
> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:58 PM
> > Subject: [Jprogramming] Modifying x inside Infix
> >
> >
> > If y is a list and I have a dyadic verb u, which I want to apply to
every 4 items
> of y I can do
> >
> > x ( 4 u \) y
> >
> >
> > and this will apply x u to every 4 items.
> >
> >
> > But I want to continually update x every iteration. So after doing x u y
to
> the first 4 items, x becomes the result,
> >
> >
> > i.e. x =: x u y
> >
> >
> > How do I do this for all the list?
> >
> >
> > I tried things like
> > result =: leftArg ( 4 (leftArg =:) u \ )rightArg
> >
> >
> > but I can't get the correct syntax (assuming there is a way to do this).
> > (I hope my explanation made sense.)
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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