[Jprogramming] The n-cell model of an array

[Raul Miller]

That might be, but that phrasing still doesn't make sense:

   */ ''
1

There's no list result here - that's a rank 0 result.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:41 AM, 'Mike Day' via Programming
<programming at jsoftware.com> wrote:
> I think Erling meant "add" in the sense of appending 1 to the empty list,
> rather than "add" as an arithmetical operation.
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> That's my n-penny-worth!
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> Mike
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> On 20/12/2017 12:25, Raul Miller wrote:
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>> You are multiplying, not adding.
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>> -- Raul On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Erling Hellenäs
>> <erling at erlinghellenas.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> */i.0
>>>
>>> 1
>>>
>>> Here the interpreter automatically adds a 1 to get this peculiar result.
>>>
>>> /Erling
>>>
>>> Den 2017-12-19 kl. 20:01, skrev Raul Miller:
>>>>
>>>> An empty tank zero array would be inconsistent.
>>>>
>>>> The number of elements in an array is the product of its dimensions, and
>>>> the multiplicative identity is 1, not 0.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
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