Hi Jose Mario!

Can you/anyone please explain the name=: 'body' (1 :) syntax?
I have never seen this before. Where is it documented?

It doesn't seem to work with verbs:

   v=: '^' (3 :)
   v
3 : (,'^')
   v 5
|syntax error: v
|       v 5

Thanks in advance


> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:29:12 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] newbie question
> 
> >To pull out the even numbers. So filter takes a predicate and a 
> >collection basically. I was thinking
>  
> You can define filter as an adverb explicitly,
>  
>    filter=. '#~ x &>' (1 :)
>    
>    (2&|) filter i.11
> 1 3 5 7 9
> or tacitly,
>    
>    filter=. &> (#~`) (`:6)
>    
>    (0=2&|) filter i.11
> 0 2 4 6 8 10
> 
> This version also deals with boxed lists:
>    
>    palindrome=. -: |.
>    
>    ]WORDS=. ;:'Yesterday dad did buy mom a madam reviver 4-rotor engine 
> racecar with a radar detector'
> ┌─────────┬───┬───┬───┬───┬─┬─────┬───────┬─┬─┬─────┬──────┬───────┬────┬─┬─────┬────────┐
> │Yesterday│dad│did│buy│mom│a│madam│reviver│4│-│rotor│engine│racecar│with│a│radar│detector│
> └─────────┴───┴───┴───┴───┴─┴─────┴───────┴─┴─┴─────┴──────┴───────┴────┴─┴─────┴────────┘
>    
>    palindrome filter WORDS
> ┌───┬───┬───┬─┬─────┬───────┬─┬─┬─────┬───────┬─┬─────┐
> │dad│did│mom│a│madam│reviver│4│-│rotor│racecar│a│radar│
> └───┴───┴───┴─┴─────┴───────┴─┴─┴─────┴───────┴─┴─────┘
>    
>    palindrome filter (;:'blessed are they that belive that they are 
> blessed');'palindrome';'rats live on no evil star'
> ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
> │┌───────┬───┬────┬────┬──────┬────┬────┬───┬───────┐│rats live on no evil 
> star│
> ││blessed│are│they│that│belive│that│they│are│blessed││                        
>  │
> │└───────┴───┴────┴────┴──────┴────┴────┴───┴───────┘│                        
>  │
> └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
>   
>    palindrome filter
> #~ palindrome&>
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Lau B. Jensen <[email protected]>
> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 6:28:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] newbie question
> 
> 
> 
> W.Ch Lin wrote:
> > Does J have filter function like clojure's ?
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
> 
> I definitely want to hear what the J crowd says, but just to be sure, in 
> Clojure you could say
> 
> (filter #(zero? (rem % 2)) (range 1 11))
> > 2 4 6 8 10
> 
> To pull out the even numbers. So filter takes a predicate and a 
> collection basically. I was thinking
> in J I'd to something like
> 
> ,.((|~ & 2) 1 + i. 10) ;, 1 + i.10
> +--------------------+
> |1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 |
> +--------------------+
> |1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10|
> +--------------------+
> 
> Where as you can see all even values get a 0 return from (|~ & 2), but 
> that leaves 2 questions
> 
> 1) Is that how you would do it with J at all?
> 2) Disregarding 1, how would you pick those 0 values out from the 
> original list 1 + i.10 ?
> 
> Thanks
> Lau
> 
> 
> 
> 
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