Since 5!:6 is designed to give extra parentheses, it is natural to expect
5!:5 is lean meat. If it is not the bug or a bug that won't be fixed, we
should fix documents to warn readers that some parentheses in 5!:5 are
redundant .

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:59 AM Jose Mario Quintana <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have seen redundant parentheses in the context of {:: (e.g.,
>
>    0&{::
> 0&({::)
>
> ) since who-knows-when; that never bothered me much.  If this is an
> indication of how often {:: is used by others, then that would be quite
> puzzling to me.
>
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 8:46 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I would complain 5!:5 rather than 5!:6,
> > 5!:6 purposely added extra parentheses to aid readability.
> >
> > the extra parentheses in 5!:5 gave users misinformation that their hand
> > crafted code are non-standard.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 24, 2020, 12:46 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Ok... well... the linear representation provided by 5!:6 has too many
> > > parenthesis.
> > >
> > > Good enough?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raul
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:29 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There were cases where the code for linear representation left out
> > > > needed parentheses.  The code is complex.  I decided I would rather
> > hear
> > > > complaints about too many parentheses than too few.
> > > >
> > > > Henry Rich
> > > >
> > > > On 5/22/2020 10:38 PM, bill lam wrote:
> > > > > This looks like a regression in j901.
> > > > > NB. j602
> > > > >     a=.   +^:(0>.1+])
> > > > >     5!:5<'a'
> > > > > +^:(0 >. 1 + ])
> > > > >     5!:6<'a'
> > > > > +^:(0 >. (1 + ]))
> > > > >
> > > > > NB. j901
> > > > >     a=.   +^:(0>.1+])
> > > > >     5!:5<'a'
> > > > > +^:(0 (>.) 1 + ])
> > > > >     5!:6<'a'
> > > > > +^:(0 (>.) (1 + ]))
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:01 AM David Lambert <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >>     +^:(0>.1+])
> > > > >> +^:(0 (>.) 1 + ])
> > > > >>
> > > > >> There's probably a reason for parenthesized maximum?
> > > > >> Inspired by fixing ys at
> > > > >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Yellowstone_sequence#tacit
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