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 > > > > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >> For information about J forums see > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > >> > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > For information about J forums see > > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > > > https://www.avg.com > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
