Sounds good.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 5:46 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'll get the answer to this one right.  <"r is heavily optimized.  Don't
> try to replace it.
>
> Henry Rich
>
> On 7/22/2018 7:08 PM, Don Guinn wrote:
> > Yes. The documentation describes exactly what's happening. The rank 1 is
> > the key making each number an item. In this case it is the equivalent to
> > (<"1) by itself. So, is it a good idea to use ({) in place of (<"1) when
> > wanting to box something rank 1? It's shorter and simpler to read. But
> what
> > about optimization? It seems to me that it would be a neat example in
> NuVoc.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Henry Rich wrote:
> >>> As I read Ye Dic, ({ i. 2 4) should give the same result as
> >>> ({ <"1 i. 2 3).
> >> I never thought I'd have to say this to *you* but:
> >> note that Catalogue { has rank 1.
> >>
> >> Hence there should not be any interaction between the colors in
> >>
> >>     { 'black' ,: 'green'
> >>
> >> nor in the low / high vectors in
> >>
> >>     { i. 2 4
> >>
> >>
> >> To me, Catalogue { works just fine as-is.  In particular, the DoJ
> >> also covers the "open argument" case as it stands.
> >>
> >>     { 'black'            NB. the same as:   { 'b' ; 'l' ; 'a' ; 'c' ;
> 'k'
> >> +-----+
> >> |black|
> >> +-----+
> >>
> >> Quote:
> >>
> >>          {y forms a catalogue from the atoms of its argument, its shape
> >>          being the chain of the shapes of the opened items of y . The
> >>          common shape of the boxed results is $y .
> >>
> >>                                                          Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> [PS 1:  the empty shape of the resulting box
> >>
> >>     $ { 'black'
> >>
> >>
> >> happens to be a concatenation ("chain") of the five empty letter shapes
> >> here.
> >>
> >> PS 2:  Those reading down to here may also be interested in this
> >> short exercise:
> >>
> >>          What's the result of
> >>          { 'ht' ; 'ao' ; ,. 'gtw'
> >>          ?
> >>
> >> (Just follow the instructions above :-)
> >> ]
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