[Jprogramming] Higher-order arrays?

[Raul Miller]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:50 PM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
<programming at jsoftware.com> wrote:
> for 35 atoms, I'd describe your shapes as 2 tables shape represented as (3 2 ,: 3 9) or now ( 3 2 ; 3 9).

Eh... so you would not support my idea of a meta array with shape (2 3
4,:5 6 7)  which (if it was a meta array of integers) would contain
234 integers?

How many elements would your concept of a meta array hold if its meta
shape was 2 3 4,:5 6 7?

> I understand your metarank concept to be designed for storage description, but it doesn't seem to be needed to describe the "shape of the shapes" if that can be "self calculated".

The rank is the shape of the shape. It's mostly a "separate" concept
because when you are implementing the language you have to have an
implementation of the concepts of the language.

> metashape 2 2 2,:9 9 9 I would understand as 8+729 items.

Oops, yes, that was a mistake on my part. A 35 element array was from
metashape 2 2 2,:3 3 3. Sorry about that.

I should blame my own carelessness there. (But I am tempted to try to
re-emphasize the lack of engagement with useful concepts for
operations on these "meta arrays".)

-- 
Raul