And to quote KEI: "One man's anomaly is another man's feature"
/Pablo Landherr On 10/22/06, Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pascal Jasmin wrote: > a useful counterexample where 0 n $ y or i. 0 n produces a result that is conveniently different than i.0 0 would substantially contribute to the impression that the costs of eliminating that behaviour are high. Especially, if there is no natural way of rewritting that counterexample. You can use i. 0,n to initialise a table that is built up by appending rows, where you need the final result to have n columns. This gives a different result from i.0 0. For example: $ (i.0 0),1 2 3 1 3 $ (i.0 5),1 2 3 1 5 In any case, right now the treatment of rank and shape of nouns is consistent. You are asking for special treatment where values are zero. This will not happen, since it complicates the language considerably. The R language is an array language which does not have consistent treatment of rank and shape, and this gives more trouble than it is worth. There is an amusing note in the R faq about such an issue, which ended "... after much discussion this (behaviour) has been determined to be a feature." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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