[Jprogramming] Truncating

[Raul Miller]

On 3/5/07, Geoff Canyon <geoffc at inspiredlogic.com> wrote:
> out what is needed. As far as I can see these are equivalent:
>
> i.&.(p:^:_1)10000
> p:i.(p:^:_1)10000
>
> They take the same number of characters to type, so why is the former
> preferred to the latter?

It's almost a matter of personal taste -- and noticing the equivalence
is something very worthwhile -- but:

   f1=: i.&.(p:^:_1)
   f1 10000

vs.
   f2=: [: p: [: i. p:^:_1
   f2 10000

It's not just that f1 is a couple characters shorter than f2,
but I also kind of like that f1 required less translation.

Mind you, I didn't think this out when I answered your
earlier post -- I think I'm starting to build habits based
on tacit programming.

-- 
Raul