Dan Bron wrote: > Which specifically correlates ~/\. (&.|.) with finite state machines. > That made me wonder if dyadic ;: (finite state machine) could provide an > amenable solution.
~/\. can produce results very like one of the "state" columns in (5;a;b;c)&;: > I can't come up with anything even close; can anyone else? Or is a > "sequential machine" not the same as an FSM? Is it more akin to a Turing > machine (i.e. a version of ;: that can be instructed to move backwards)? ;: seems to conflict with the idea of a general purpose f (such as is indicated in the subject line). -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
