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From: monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Do I really need a loop?
Message-ID: <1991May17.031707.27992@cshl.org>
Date: 17 May 91 03:17:07 GMT
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In article <1991May15.134305.10894@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui) writes:
>
>Alternatively, in J, one could write  M *"1 0 V  .  The rank conjunction 
>(") modifies times (*) to work on rank 1 objects on the left and rank 0 
>objects on the right; that is, multiply vectors of M by scalars of V.  
>
>Alternatively, one could write  M *"_1 V  ; that is, multiply items of M 
>by items of V.

amen. and the absurdity of the previous posts should make them
reconsider whether the APL they speak has any value at all.