The _. will change the array to float. Would that be a problem?

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 12:03 PM Roger Hui <rogerhui.can...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Careful: 0*_ and _*0 do not leave _ untouched: both return 0.  (Likewise
> for __ .)
>
> Another alternative is to use an associated boolean array whose 1s indicate
> non-null values.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 8:50 AM PMA <armst...@eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> > Aha, so arithmetic functions will just leave it as-is.  Just right!
> >
> > On 02/04/2020 08:22 PM, Devon McCormick wrote:
> > > You might also consider "_" (infinity) or "__" (negative infinity).
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 8:19 PM PMA <armst...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks, Roger, I'll look into this!
> > >>
> > >> On 02/04/2020 04:33 PM, Roger Hui wrote:
> > >>> You could try using _. (aka NaN aka indeterminate).  But read
> > >>> http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Indeterminate first.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:46 PM PMA <armst...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> J gurus --
> > >>>> I have a numerical array in which some positions
> > >>>> need to display either 0 (a literal zero) OR
> > >>>> nothing at (be empty).  Is this possible somehow
> > >>>> using the NULL value, with math functions simply
> > >>>> bypassing it?
> > >>>> Thanks in advance,
> > >>>> Peter A
> > >>>>
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