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chrispsn

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About chrispsn

Sydney, Australia.

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    Comment #40544469

    Click on k, then k.zip.

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    Comment #40338777

    Adding to RodgerTheGreat's comment: for me, k's power is its rich set of adverbs that are convenient to write. Notice that aside from reverse (monadic |), all verb symbols in the a…

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    Comment #39614850

    Glad to hear it’s memorable!

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    Comment #39034695

    Everything I've found that's public is documented here: https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/da00835bb122c42f429a084df83... The kparc.com links are down though.

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    Comment #35399150

    https://secwang.github.io/ngnkcart/

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    Comment #35397191

    I think we need some kind of grouping function, but it doesn't have to be the 'generate group indices' function. I'm sure we'll have alternatives available such as `update ... by`.…

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    Comment #35395952

    In the Wordle dict example, it would have helped if a type system could tell me I was wrong when I assumed that an indexing miss would generate an empty list.

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    Comment #35394112

    Yep - added a link to some simple examples in the article (below). Throughout the article there are also a few links to executable versions of the code examples. https://ngn.codebe…

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    Comment #35394101

    Good point - added a simple explanation in the article: Group tells you the places each element occurs in a list. It generates lists of indices.

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    Comment #35393920

    Yep, the comments are the BQN version.

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    Comment #35380104

    I don't think user-level definitions of custom symbols are that useful, but for what it's worth, you can do it in ngn/k... (Π):!/: / make table Π[`a `b ( 1 2 3 4)]

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    Comment #31365125

    In case you've jumped straight to the comments, here are some intro links. Many of these also appear in ngn/k's readme. First, direct links to ngn/k in the browser: - REPL: https:/…

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    Comment #28196226

    > So what would a general purpose language look like if it took these ideas to heart? K or LINQ?

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    Comment #28093671

    The APL Orchard and The K Tree. https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree

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    Comment #27928429

    A nice shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-U to toggle single- or multi-line view.

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    Comment #27850590

    > The results of ⍸ for different rank arguments are actually inconsistent. Yep. For this reason deep where ideally wouldn't live on '&'. It should be able to absorb any structure f…

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