Ah, I understand now. No, I'm only interested in (pro)nouns for now, and numeric ones at that.
Sorry to go off-topic, but I was keen to pre-empt a potentially awkward bug. On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are only concerned with names of nouns, then this is not an > issue for you. > > The definition of list that I was using is the one that J defines. > It's still accessible as list_z_ after you have executed the lines you > documented below. > > -- > Raul > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Raul, could you give me the value of (list) for which that happens? >> Your expression works ok for the (few) values I've tried, eg: >> >> ] list=: 1p1 + i.6 >> 3.14159 4.14159 5.14159 6.14159 7.14159 8.14159 >> ".'list=:',5!:6<'list' >> 3.14159 4.14159 5.14159 6.14159 7.14159 8.14159 >> list -: ".'list=:',5!:6<'list' >> 1 >> >> (I'm only worried about numeric list where ($$list) is 1 or 0.) >> >> JVERSION >> Installer: j602a_mac_intel.dmg >> Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45 >> Library: 6.02.057 >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Certainly: >>> >>> ".'list=:',5!:6<'list' >>> |spelling error >>> >>> Use 0!:0 instead of ". >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. >>>> >>>> Raul, can you give me an example of that, please? >>>> >>>> I have released code which assumes it does. (At least, 5!:6, for which >>>> I suppose you'd say the same?) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> By "ipc" I think he means what I think is Q's . >>>>> >>>>> In Q, the "natural representation" of any item is a serialized version >>>>> -- evaluating it will recover the original item. This is not the case >>>>> in J -- for example 99x gets displayed as 99 but: >>>>> >>>>> 99 -&(^~) 99x >>>>> _3.98353e182 >>>>> >>>>> Anyways, if I understand Q properly (or maybe it was K), it will ship >>>>> a sentence off to another interpreter using . and the result is the >>>>> result from that other interpreter. And, even if I do not have the >>>>> syntax exactly right, the underlying point is that Q/K it's fairly >>>>> simple to delegate processing to a small farm of machines. This can >>>>> be useful, for example, when very large (multiple terabyte) data >>>>> structure are spread out across multiple machines. >>>>> >>>>> I believe that the usefulness of this ties in with Q's support for >>>>> tree data structures as well as triggers and dependencies. >>>>> >>>>> J does not currently have anything like that. And, for that matter, >>>>> 5!:5 does not always serialize in a form that ". can digest. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Raul >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> If by "ipc" you mean tcp/ip, J does support it. See "Studio/Socket >>>>>> Driver", "Studio/Sockets and the Internet", and "Scripts/Socket System" >>>>>> on >>>>>> the wiki (www.jsoftware.com/jwiki). >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Kim Kuen Tang <kuent...@vodafone.de> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> * Q also supports ipc which i cannot find in J. >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Devon McCormick, CFA >>>>>> ^me^ at acm. >>>>>> org is my >>>>>> preferred e-mail >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> 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 >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
