> Namens Marshall Lochbaum > Verzonden: vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 17:07 (...) > J's implementation seems to be an attempt to follow the XAPL standard > (ISO/IEC 13751:2001), which is not freely available. The standard is > ambiguous, since it uses the undefined terms "fractional-parts" and > "nearer". It's unclear whether these should be subject to comparison > tolerance, and it looks like the documentation and implementation have > interpreted it two different ways. > > I think that the fully tolerant interpretation used in documentation is > slightly > better, but I consider XAPL's definition to be borderline nonsensical in > either > case. As a Dyalog APL implementer I have done some work on designing a > better specification which I'd be happy to share.
I would be happy to read it. R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
