Hi Raul; Thanks for the clarification. My sense of the sentence didn't see the list of nouns being constructed prior to the fetch. In some cases forks, perhaps just n v v forks are not that immediately obvious to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\/| Randy A MacDonald | APL: If you can say it, it's done.. (ram) |/\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |\ | | The only real problem with APL is that BSc(Math) UNBF'83 | it is "still ahead of its time." Sapere Aude | - Morten Kromberg Natural Born APL'er | Demo website: http://156.34.77.41/ -----------------------------------------------------(INTP)----{ gnat }-
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] FizzBuzz > On 3/7/07, ramacd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I correct in saying that the documentation for Fetch says nothing of > > fetching from what is a train but what looks like a verb list. Some > > experiments: > > > > (0 {:: <:;];>:) 12 > > 11 > > I'm not sure I understand the question. (Actually, I'm not > sure you're asking a question.) > > That said, in this case, the left argument for {:: is a boxed > list of three integers > > (<:;];>:) 12 > +--+--+--+ > |11|12|13| > +--+--+--+ > 0 {:: 11;12;13 > 11 > > Also, it might be worth noting that this is a train: > 0 {:: <: ; ] ; >: > > More specifically, it's a train of three forks: > 0 {:: (<: ] (] ;>:)) > > When the left tine of a fork is a noun, it gets treated as a > niladic function. > > Nothing about this (other than the use of {:: as the center of > the left-most fork) is specific to {:: -- that said, I don't know > where in the dictionary the n v v fork is documented. > > -- > Raul > > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
