Re: [stack] array theory question

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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Scripsi:

> The answer to the question, as posed, is "No".  But a better question
> is this: "Is a scalar an array"?  And the answer to that is "Yes, a
> scalar is an array of rank 0, which by definition contains 1 element."
> This is true AFAIK in all APL-derived languages.  

Except, as it turns out, Q'Nial version 6 (the current version) which
no longer implements array theory exactly, according to Wikipedia.

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