How would that work?

Thanks,

—
Raul

On Monday, July 23, 2018, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure this is something to be investigated at this time. Because I
> suspect that changing it's rank would not a trivial thing. All I asked is
> why the rank was set to 1. It appears pretty useless to me. How useful
> would it be if it's rank were infinite? Not much. Simply (<"1) before
> passing to ({) gets the same result.
>
> There are probably plenty of other surprises out there in J.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:02 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hold on thar!  I didn't want { y to work differently, I just misread the
> > spec.  I don't think the current definition has any such restrictions as
> > you say.  Try it with boxes containing whatever type you like.
> >
> > Henry Rich
> >
> > On 7/23/2018 6:42 PM, Don Guinn wrote:
> > > It seems like the problem is that Catalogue manadic rank is one. I
> really
> > > can't see much use in passing it a table or higher rank of boxes. So
> what
> > > about changing its monadic rank to infinite? It seems to me that that
> > would
> > > open up interesting possibilities, including as Henry wanted it to work
> > in
> > > the first place. As of now the things being built restricted to numbers
> > or
> > > letters. It would not affect anyone using it with a list of boxes as it
> > > would still work the same.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to determine the rational for its monadic rank being
> > one?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:12 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> No.  But no argument for doing so either.  Thus, I will not complicate
> > >> the code with the special case.
> > >>
> > >> Henry Rich
> > >>
> > >> On 7/23/2018 9:39 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> > >>> Any reason to not make the L.0 case for { use the <“1 implementation?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> —
> > >>> Raul
> > >>>
> > >>> On Sunday, July 22, 2018, 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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