> Say I have a list like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 
> And I want the result to be a list that a duplicate for each prime in
> the list:
> 
> 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8
> 
> Are boxes the only/best way?

No.

   (#~1+1&p:)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8

Other example

   (#~ ]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1&p:)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8

However, mostly boxing cannot be avoided.


R.E. Boss


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:programming-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Geoff Canyon
> Verzonden: zondag 9 maart 2008 21:59
> Aan: Programming forum
> Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] Turning 0 into _1 1 in a list
> 
> I think the eventual solution I came up with was somewhat similar to
> this. Here's my solution:
> 
> replaceZeroes =: (;@:;@:(_4([:<(((_1 1 (] i.&0)}"0 1 ])`])@.(# =
> i.&0)))\]))^:_
> 
> I spent some time trying to figure out how to apply the replacement
> repeatedly before boxing and then unbox at the end, to minimize boxing/
> unboxing, but I couldn't get that to work. So in the above, the boxing/
> unboxing happens for each replacement. This isn't so bad in my
> particular case since no list has more than three zeroes in it. If the
> lists had many zeroes, the whole thing would come apart, since I'm
> starting with 512 lists of 27 elements, so a bunch of zeroes would
> quickly result in millions of lists. As it is, I end up with less than
> a thousand.
> 
> Still I wonder that there seems to be no way to avoid boxing/unboxing?
> If I have a list and I want to transform that list, with the subsets I
> take potentially changing in length, I can't do that without boxes?
> 
> Say I have a list like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 
> And I want the result to be a list that a duplicate for each prime in
> the list:
> 
> 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8
> 
> Are boxes the only/best way?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Geoff
> 
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> 
> > I have some comments in addition to R.E.Boss's comments
> > (and using his M)
> >   M=:1 _1  0  1,1  1 _1  1,:0  1  0 _1
> >
> > A simple approach to supressing fill uses box (<) followed
> > by raze (;).  In other words:
> >
> >   <@(_1 1 (] i.&0)}"0 1 ])`<@.(# = i.&0)"1 M
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