Note also that if (3*4+5) -: +`*/3 4 5 this gerund mechanism would be
useful for implementing a solution to your minimization problem, using
something like
   C#inv!._1 (#~ 0 1$~#)|.+`<./\.|. (C=:D~:_1)#D,.P

That's untested code, for obvious reasons, but I think it would be in
the right ballpark.

So my question is: is the existing implementation useful for anything?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul




On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Spelled out in nuvoc doesn't mean it's not an error:
>
> It's quite possible to document erroneous behavior.
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Inserts from the front.
>>
>> +`*/3 4 5
>>
>> 23
>>
>> 3+4*5
>>
>> 23
>>
>>
>> Spelled out in
>>
>> http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slash#Details
>>
>> Henry Rich
>>
>> On 2/22/2016 4:21 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d420.htm says:
>>>
>>> m/y inserts successive verbs from the gerund m between items of y,
>>> extending m cyclically as required. Thus, +`*/i.6 is 0+1*2+3*4+5
>>>
>>> But it does not include an example of m/y where y contains an odd
>>> number of elements.
>>>
>>>  From the description, I would expect +`*/3 4 5 to give the result 3*4+5
>>>
>>> However:
>>>     3*4+5
>>> 27
>>>     +`*/3 4 5
>>> 23
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that this might be a bug in the interpreter.
>>>
>>> Is there some application, though, that requires the current behavior?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
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