The verb (frame) as well as the Zero Frame concept are defined in [0] by
Roger.
[0] Rank and Uniformity
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/rank.htm
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Ken Chakahwata <
[email protected]> wrote:
> My guess is that it would help if we could imagine that we had a primitive
> called 'frame' in the same way as we have one called 'shape' i.e. $
> Then one way to get to the precise meaning of frame is to have a J
> definition of that ficticious primitive. At a guess, this primitive
> requires the 'rank' of the cells in order to then return the appropriate
> frame.
> If we have an array of shape (x,y,z), and we stipulate cells of rank 3,
> then the frame is presumably empty? Not sure of this... but anyhow, just a
> thought...
>
> Enjoy
> ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Programming [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Henry Rich
> Sent: 17 January 2016 23:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Definition: Frame of an argument
>
> The terminology I use is an (x by y by z) array of cells, or an array of
> cells with frame (x,y,z), emphasizing that the frame is a (part of the)
> shape rather than an array.
>
> Henry Rich
>
> On 1/17/2016 6:16 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Hmm... ok, reviewing
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/frame_and_cell.htm 'frame' does
> > get used that way.
> >
> > I was thinking of the frame as having a shape rather than being the
> shape.
> >
> > Then again, since you can think of an array as being (for example) an
> > (x,y,z) frame of cells, I do not think that my interpretation was
> > entirely incorrect, either. So I suppose I have gotten myself into a
> > "much ado about nothing" sort of issue.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
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