The proposed change is only to Antibase (#:) not Copy (#) Plus, all the functionality of #: would be maintained and the statement from NuVoc, "x #: y is used only when you need to state how many places you want in the result would still remain in effect but the left argument be required to be a vector (even if only 1 place was sought).
> On 2018Jul 3, at 21:41, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > > As long as we don''t change this functionality: > > 1 1 0 1 0 0 1#10 2 34 13 6 87 9 > > 10 2 13 9 > > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:33 PM Jimmy Gauvin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I also support the idea of this scalar extension. >> >> #.inv or #.^:_1 have a "kludgy" feeling ... >> >> >> Jimmy >> >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:31 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Can anyone provide a reason it would be undesirable to have a scalar left >>> (x) argument to #: behave any differently than x (#.^:_1) y ? >>> >>> In NuVoc I find - " >>> x #: y is used only when you need to state how many places you want in >> the >>> result, or if x contains differing values. If you want just sufficient >>> places to hold the value of y in the base x, use #.inv to convert to a >>> fixed base. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
