Yep and it would have an empty frame, correct? One of the big challenges of being human is to be able to turn down the pattern matching skills, so that patterns that do emerge are accurate. You see item and atom and you think - Are those related because they differ by one letter? Sometimes it helps, sometimes not so much.
Cheers, bob > On Jan 20, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
