You make it sound as though the display of the 2x3 array returned by
{."1 array
is arbitrary when in fact it is merely consistent. I don't see that the
output of "showlist"
is consistent or convenient though I guess you find it useful.
J's consistency allows us to distinguish between the 2x3 array of scalars
{."1 array
aei
mqu
versus the 2x3 array of 1-element vectors
1{."1 array
a
e
i
m
q
u
On 8/8/07, Kip Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thank you, very clear.
>
> Verb showlist shows lists vertically. J shows vectors horizontally and
> other lists vertically. The consistency of showlist helped my
> understanding, but J's display is better because it is compact and we
> are used to reading horizontally, then vertically.
>
> ...
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