Isn't 2&(3!:4) the verb you're looking for? Henry Rich
On 10/14/2010 10:36 PM, bill lam wrote: > I'm afraid it might not work either because addition of two int32 zero > might well be a single-byte zero, the J dictionary will not talk about > implementation details. A more robust verb is needed to guarantee > successful coercion or least notifying failure. > > Чтв, 14 Окт 2010, Martin Pelletier писал(а): >> I was just afraid someone would pull some sort of character count argument, >> so that's why I opted for ZERO, but I fully agree that a more descriptive >> name is key in producing a more readable (and maintainable) code. >> >> To me the use of 2-2 was clear because I encountered this same problem. And >> it's for the same reason that I abstracted it away. >> >> Should all called functions come to interpret "natural" 0 as an integer in >> the appropriate context, it will be easy to replace the definition of >> INTEGERZERO with 0, or altogether replace all instances of the variable with >> a hardcoded 0 and forget what once needed to be abstracted. >> >> Martin Pelletier >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 15 lines snipped |=---] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
