On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Mark D. Niemiec <[email protected]> wrote: > However, this suggests another possibility. > Perhaps the Rank conjunction " could be extended to accept Fit > to override the default fill element for the mechasm that appends the > outer frames (for example, >"0!.n).
Maybe, but note that rank (whether the explicit rank conjunction or implicit ranks on builtin verbs) uses a different method to assemble elements than the append and raze and similar verbs do. Namely atoms are special case for append, it repeats these instead of padding them with zero, whereas with rank atoms are treated as usual. For this reason I think it would be useful to keep the indication that those verbs that use the semantics of append can use any fill if supplied with fit, whereas rank and any verb with an implicit rank always use the default fills. > Key /. already sets a precedent for applying Fit to a verb returned by an > operator. Wow, indeed. Where's this documented in the dictionary? Ambrus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
