[Jprogramming] }

[greg heil]

Andrew wrote:
> >The interpreter is working as specified. The result is not
"intuitive" because in this case atoms of the index array do not
select subarrays that are the same shape. -- RogerHui 2006-07-18
23:06:08

> Where exactly this is specified? Dictionary page for } does not mention shape of subarrays.

> > >Could somebody please explain me where asterisk in top left corner is coming from?
    '*' ((<1;2 3),<0;7) } 2 9$'-'
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Roger wrote that? Private communication? But then most of the thread
responses i get from Andrew are strangely routed in my gMail client:
they always end up in a new thread separating each time from the
parent threads, so i probably just missed something.

i would like the interpreter to be able to update subarrays of
differing shapes, eg in graphic applications etc. i would like to see
J more capable of dealing with lists - it is a major advantage that K
has over J. List processing is a significant paradigm for regularizing
interactions with data and it should be subsumed within J.

~greg