2012/4/12 Björn Helgason :
> The empties do not behave the same
>
> 0^0
> 1
Not an empty
> a:=''
>
> a:=i.0
>
> (i.0)^i.0
>
> ('')^('')
>
No behavioral difference on empties.
> 0%0
> 0
Not an empty.
> 0%i.0
>
> (i.0)%i.0
>
No behavioral difference on empties.
> (a:)%(
2012/4/4 Jose Mario Quintana
> They both know that there is precisely 0^0 function with the empty set as
> its domain and codomain.
>
The empties do not behave the same
0^0
1
a:=''
a:=i.0
(i.0)^i.0
('')^('')
0%0
0
0%i.0
(i.0)%i.0
(a:)%(a:)
|domain error
|
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Viktor Cerovski
wrote:
> type information is not stored anywhere, at least not in J/Haskell/LISP.
Type information is stored somewhere, in any computer
language implementation that deals with the storage
of different types of information.
It might be stored in di
Raul Miller-4 wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Viktor Cerovski
> wrote:
>> I've counted 4 contradictions:
>> 1) 1d empty array,
>
> That's not a contradiction. '' is an example of a 1d empty array.
> i.0 is another example
>
>> 2) empty array of numbers,
>
> That would be an arr
From: Edward Mokurai Cherlin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 7:20 PM
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] CS Jokes (was Re: Functors in mathematics,
> Haskell and an example in J)
>
>
> On Tue, April 3, 2012 6:24 pm, neit...@gaertner.de wrote:
>> RM&
Recalling dimly from "Night at the Opera"(?):
Boatswain: "Have you seen ?"
Groucho: "Saw him climbing the mizzen mast."
Boatswain: "We don't have a mizzen mast."
Groucho: "Must have been somebody else."
Jose Mario Quintana wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_function
>
> The man at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_function
The man at the airport after giving her a big hog and an ardent kiss – My love,
you have no idea how much I have missed you!
The stunning and stunned woman – I do not know you!
The man quickly walking away – I do not know you either! It must have bee
Unfortunately, I didn't abandon my impulse to improve the VBS and
wasted several hours generalizing it. At least it has a real work
application.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Steven Taylor wrote:
> even in humble much maligned vb this could be expressed better. A
> recursive definition would
even in humble much maligned vb this could be expressed better. A
recursive definition would be better. You do find lots of horrible
examples in the scripty type languages.
re: interpreted V's compiled: APL isn't as reliant on compilation because
it doesn't have to interpret very often (i.e. who
Charming exposition. Thanks for sharing it!
On 2012/04/05 08:09 , Devon McCormick wrote:
> Yes - but not necessarily funny ones: moot.aplwiki.com/BeyondCompilation .
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Yes - but not necessarily funny ones: moot.aplwiki.com/BeyondCompilation .
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
wrote:
> On Wed, April 4, 2012 12:18 am, Devon McCormick wrote:
>> So, the joke that paragraph doesn't contain, is it about what empty
>> arrays those other languages
On Wed, April 4, 2012 12:18 am, Devon McCormick wrote:
> So, the joke that paragraph doesn't contain, is it about what empty
> arrays those other languages don't have?
Well played.
More precisely, what jokes other programming languages are. ^_^
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Edward Mokurai Ch
So, the joke that paragraph doesn't contain, is it about what empty
arrays those other languages don't have?
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
wrote:
...
> The next paragraph does not contain any jokes. The one after does.
>
> It is very easy to prove that any computable func
Not the exact article you are looking for, but in the genre:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/Empty_Array_Jokes.htm
Some recent contributions:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#empty_array
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Edward M
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 7:20 PM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] CS Jokes (was Re: Functors in mathematics, Haskell
and an example in J)
On Tue, April 3, 2012 6:24 pm, neit...@gaertner.de wrote:
> RM> Is that two page article of empty array jokes available anywher
On Tue, April 3, 2012 6:24 pm, neit...@gaertner.de wrote:
> RM> Is that two page article of empty array jokes available anywhere
> RM> online?
>
> Yes. I've attached a copy.
An empty copy? ^_^ I didn't see an attachment.
> Martin
...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:07 PM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] CS Jokes (was Re: Functors in mathematics, Haskell
and an example in J)
Not the exact article you are looking for, but in the genre:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/Empty_Array_Jokes.htm
Some recent
RM> Is that two page article of empty array jokes available anywhere
RM> online?
Yes. I've attached a copy.
Martin
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Viktor Cerovski
wrote:
> I've counted 4 contradictions:
> 1) 1d empty array,
That's not a contradiction. '' is an example of a 1d empty array.
i.0 is another example
> 2) empty array of numbers,
That would be an array which contains no numbers, yes?
Actually
Not the exact article you are looking for, but in the genre:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/Empty_Array_Jokes.htm
Some recent contributions:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#empty_array
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Edward M
Edward Mokurai wrote:
> I wrote another joke of this kind in APL News once long ago,
> concerning a utility for printing sideways on fan-fold paper. It is
> not difficult to prove that any computable function can be written in
> one line of APL, and this provided a way of printing it. A single b
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
wrote:
> This is the sort of thing that got me my own entry in Stan
> Kelly-Bootle's Computer Contradictionary, along with a two-page
> article consisting entirely of empty array jokes for use in teaching,
> as suggested by Jim Brown, then of
e directly the expression without any pronouns.
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http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Covert%20Representation
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Edward Mo
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Covert%20Representation
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <
moku...@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, April 1, 2012 2:51 pm, Raul Miller wrote:
> > P.S. after reading your example and seeing that you
> > using the shape (with a prefix of
On Sun, April 1, 2012 2:51 pm, Raul Miller wrote:
> P.S. after reading your example and seeing that you
> using the shape (with a prefix of 0) to hold the data
> I am wondering if this was meant to be an april fool's
> joke?
I have observed that it is possible, in a hypothetical way, to
represent
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