[Jprogramming] take

[Linda Alvord]

   'a b c'=:a:;a:;a:  
   a
┌┐
││
└┘
   b
┌┐
││
└┘
   c

Note that  c  is empty, but  a  and  b  are "empty boxes".

Linda   

-----Original Message-----
From: programming-bounces at jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-bounces at jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Raul Miller
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:41 AM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] take

; has two kinds of behaviors.

One kind of behavior is evident when dealing with sentences where the supplied nouns are unboxed:

   1;2;3
+-+-+-+
|1|2|3|
+-+-+-+

The other kind of behavior is evident when dealing with sentences where the supplied nouns are boxed:

   a:;a:;a:
+--+--++
|++|++||
||||||||
|++|++||
+--+--++