Here's a link to a PDF of Eugene McDonnell's Complex Floor Paper <http://bit.ly/2Ma6nA9> I keep on my Google Drive: http://bit.ly/2Ma6nA9
Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:51 AM R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
