Please give a few examples of general arguments for which 3!:1 and 3!:2 do not work. I believe in this thread we are talking about nouns, so that would be a few examples of general noun arguments.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Marshall Lochbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what 1!:1 and 1!:2 are for. You should learn the first few of J's > file foreigns; they are listed here: > http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dx001.htm > > Roger: yes, the conversions functions are somewhat nicer, but they don't > work for general arguments. Until I feel like writing a serialization > function that uses these and is general (or someone else gives me one--that > would be awesome), I'll keep using 5!:5 for serialization of small values. > > Marshall > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow! that is great stuff! Thanks so much, Marshall. >> >> If I want to take a noun like 'all' which is just a list of text strings. >> and save it as a standard text file 'all.txt' in a specific folder on my >> system, how would you do that? >> >> Skip >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Marshall Lochbaum <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > (nl 0) lists all the nouns in boxed form, and 7!:5 gives the memory used >> by >> > a noun in boxed form, so >> > 7!:5 nl 0 >> > gives you a nice list of all the memory being used. >> > >> > To save and recover a noun using a file, you can use the inverses (5!:5) >> > and ". (". is a strict left inverse of 3 :'5!:5<''y''', at least). >> > In other words, if your noun is named 'a', you can save it using >> > (5!:5 <'a') 1!:2 <filename >> > a =. ". 1!:1 <filename >> > >> > Mrshall >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
