Actually, my parenthetical suggestion should have been for {>{ A
${;{'a bc',&<&;:'def ghij'
1 3 1 4 2 3 2 4
${>{'a bc',&<&;:'def ghij'
2 2 2 4
Thanks,
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Raul
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:13 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What would a higher ranked catalogue do? How would this be useful?
>
> (That asked... I imagine I could contrive some examples of catalogue which
> take advantage of its current behavior. For example: {{A where 2=L.A )
>
> Thanks,
>
> —
> Raul
>
> On Monday, July 23, 2018, Don Guinn <[email protected]> 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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