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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-06-02 21:42:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-06-02 21:43:09 -0400 |
| commit | c3ea468236e362e4ecc1bc27aed7a64d90e7cf81 (patch) | |
| tree | 772ae1b9812efd404859966768abfc856b99da1d /docs/doc/range.html | |
| parent | f45ab0c01b250efa190b84f2e1157b85fd52f49f (diff) | |
Always use "index list", not "list index", for a full element index
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diff --git a/docs/doc/range.html b/docs/doc/range.html index 6a8409ac..8065a34a 100644 --- a/docs/doc/range.html +++ b/docs/doc/range.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ⟨ 1 0 ⟩ ⟨ 1 1 ⟩ ⟨ 1 2 ⟩ ┘ </pre> -<p>It's really two different functions packed together: if <code><span class='Value'>𝕩</span></code> is a natural number—a length—then it returns a list of numeric indices, but if it's a list of numbers, then it returns an array of list indices. This means the result always has <a href="depth.html">depth</a> one more than the argument.</p> +<p>It's really two different functions packed together: if <code><span class='Value'>𝕩</span></code> is a natural number—a length—then it returns a list of numeric indices, but if it's a list of numbers, then it returns an array of index lists. This means the result always has <a href="depth.html">depth</a> one more than the argument.</p> <p>The two kinds of index correspond to BQN's two selection functions: <a href="select.html">Select</a> (<code><span class='Function'>⊏</span></code>) works with indices along an axis, which are numbers, and <a href="pick.html">Pick</a> (<code><span class='Function'>⊑</span></code>) works with element indices, which are lists. The examples below would fail if we swapped these around. Each result from Range is a length-6 list, but their elements are different.</p> <a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=4oaVNgoKKOKGlTYpIOKKjyAic2VsZWN0IgoK4oaV4p+oNuKfqQoKKOKGleKfqDbin6kpIOKKkSAiIHBpY2sgIg==">↗️</a><pre> <span class='Function'>↕</span><span class='Number'>6</span> ⟨ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ⟩ |