> Don Guinn wrote: > ...PS: By the way, I was surfing Wikipedia the other day, and from its > article on arity, I learned a neat synonym for niladic: > medadic. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arity#Other_names
I've never heard of arity, much less medadic. Sounds like something Bourbaki would have introduced with "...par abus de notation". :) Perhaps Computer Science needs a word for "takes arguments, but totally ignores them". There seems to be a lot of that in J. Ian On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Don Guinn wrote: >> nilad=: monad >> NB. stresses that this verb ignores its y > > How about: > > side_effect =: nilad > NB. Stresses the most important aspect of the definition > NB. (and serves as a caution and a hint towards reading) > > Of course, while all nilads are pure side-effect (else they'd be nouns), not > all side-effecting definitions are nilads (and some > produce side effects based on their input, which obviously a nilad would > never do). > > > -Dan > > PS: By the way, I was surfing Wikipedia the other day, and from its article > on arity, I learned a neat synonym for niladic: > medadic. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arity#Other_names > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
