I, too, find this an attractive extension to Copy. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the recent Hofstadter-Conway thread, I used complex&# to expand a > vector. > However, the solution was slightly complicated (and slowed) by the fact > that > # only allows me to specify fills *after* an element. > > It would be nice if # were extended such that if the imaginary component of > a complex argument were negative, then the fills would *precede* the > corresponding element in the output. That is, (m j. n)&# works as it does > today if n is positive or zero, but if n is negative then the fills come > before, not after. > > I've needed this before; see, e.g. the bottom of: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2007-January/004750.html > > -Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
