I think the maximal cell would be the entire array? Thanks,
-- Raul On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:20 PM, robert therriault <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul > > I took the non-trivial note on maximal to mean that there could be more than > one item in the cell. Maximal would be the entire cell. It does leave the > possibility that atoms could also be items though :-) > > Cheers, bob > >> On Jan 20, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I thought arrays could hold multiple items? (# counts items?) >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:17 PM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Programming [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> On Behalf Of Roger Hui >>>> Sent: maandag 18 januari 2016 20:36 >>>> To: Programming forum <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Definition: Frame of an argument >>>> >>>> Among old timers, "frame" has an historical ambiguity. >>> (...) >>>> To document >>>> the latter, Dyalog resurrected "outer shape". Dyalog also resurrected >>>> "major cell" because "item" already has an entrenched different meaning in >>>> the APL2 family. >>> >>> I always loved the analogy between "atom" and "item", short for the minimal >>> and maximal (non-trivial) cell. >>> >>> >>> R.E. Boss >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
