[Jprogramming] Rewriting adverb table

[Kip Murray]

Thank you, Fraser, very clear and helpful.  I now see why my attempt involving x and y did not 
work.  /Kip


Fraser Jackson wrote:
> I suspect the difficulty arose because of the need to recognise that table 
> is an ambivalent verb. I admire the skill of members of the forum with the 
> tacit form but I think the simplest thing to do is to recognise that table 
> is an ambivalent adverb and write the obvious expressions for the formatted 
> result.  Dan of course achieved this in a different and very elegant way.
> 
>    tab =: 1 : 0
> 1 1}. _1 _1 }. ": y u  table  y
> :
> 1 1}. _1 _1 }. ": x u  table  y
> )
> 
> 
>    - tab i.4
> -|0  1  2  3
> -+----------
> 0|0 _1 _2 _3
> 1|1  0 _1 _2
> 2|2  1  0 _1
> 3|3  2  1  0
>    - tab ~ i.4
> -|0  1  2  3
> -+----------
> 0|0 _1 _2 _3
> 1|1  0 _1 _2
> 2|2  1  0 _1
> 3|3  2  1  0
> 
> Fraser 
> 
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