I prefer Roger's no comment.
Roy A. Crabtree wrote:
no comment.
On Nov 26, 2007 4:52 PM, R.E. Boss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just like you spend your time commenting on people dreaming up one liners,
there are others who spend their time dreaming up one liners.
And I (sometimes) spend my time commenting on someone who spend his time
commenting on people dreaming up one liners.
R.E. Boss
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Verzonden: maandag 26 november 2007 17:31
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Onderwerp: [Jprogramming] Re: Oblique Function
Rather than racking your brains to do it in an unbelievably complex one
liner, why not just use three sentences?:
1. Extract the data you need with {
2 Perform your verb
3. Re-insert it with }
Then after you've tested it out, if you really must, you may be able to
convert it into a one-liner using ]
Finally, you can try and convert that into a tacit function. But unless
all this added effort results in a noticeable speed up, why bother,
unless
it's some macho thing?!? One of the main raisons d'être of J is that it
permits far faster program development - perhaps 10 times faster than
traditional programming languages. If you're going to spend time
dreaming
up such one liners, what's happened to that time advantage. Is that an
integral part of APL and J ?!?
In an earlier world APL, such dense, difficult-to-understand one liners,
had a name, which I can't even use today because of more recent
connotations is has.
Bob in Boynton Beach, FL
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