Merge pull request #39 from Dyalog/tacit

Add chapter Tacit Programming

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ In the first instance, it lists the changes between consecutive releases of this
 However, because this book is a rework of the first edition by Bernard Legrand,
 this changelog also marks with [n] content that is new in this rework.
 
+
+## 0.6.0
+
+  - [n] Add chapter “Tacit Programming”:
+    - [n] add section “Function Composition”:
+      - add section “Operators > Compose”;
+      - [n] add “Atop” `⍤` and “Over” `⍥`;
+    - [n] add section “Binding”:
+      - [n] add example of binding in the right operand of `@`, e.g. in `0@(>∘5)` to replace values larger than 5;
+    - add old “Operators > Commute”:
+      - [n] distinguish between “Commute” and “Selfie”;
+    - [n] add section “Constant” on `A⍨`;
+    - [n] write about trains;
+    - [n] add exercises.
+
+
 ## 0.5.0
 
   - Add chapter “Operators”:

book/_toc.yml

@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ sections:
 - file: Special-Syntax
 - file: Nested-Arrays-Continued
 - file: Operators
+- file: Tacit-Programming
 - file: Appendices

docs/Appendices.ipynb

@@ -764,6 +764,54 @@
     "[The `⎕FMT` System Function](./Execute-and-Format-Control.ipynb#the-fmt-system-function), and\n",
     "[Processing Nested Arrays](./Nested-Arrays-Continued.ipynb#processing-nested-arrays)."
    ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### `weird` - mixed doubly nested matrix"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/html": [
+       "<span style=\"white-space:pre; font-family: monospace\">┌─────┬────────────┐\n",
+       "│456  │┌──────┬───┐│\n",
+       "│     ││Dyalog│44 ││\n",
+       "│     │├──────┼───┤│\n",
+       "│     ││27    │8 6││\n",
+       "│     ││      │2 4││\n",
+       "│     │└──────┴───┘│\n",
+       "├─────┼────────────┤\n",
+       "│17 51│Twisted     │\n",
+       "└─────┴────────────┘\n",
+       "</span>"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 1,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "⎕← weird ← 2 2⍴456 (2 2⍴ 'Dyalog' 44 27 (2 2⍴8 6 2 4)) (17 51) 'Twisted'"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Used in\n",
+    "[Mixed and Nested Arrays](./Data-andVariables.ipynb#mixed-and-nested-arrays),\n",
+    "[Pick](./Nested-Arrays-Continued.ipynb#pick),\n",
+    "[Reach Indexing](./Nested-Arrays-Continued.ipynb#reach-indexing), and\n",
+    "[Function Composition](./Tacit-Programming.ipynb#function-composition)."
+   ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {

docs/Operators.ipynb

@@ -5760,7 +5760,7 @@
    "id": "round-pickup",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "The exact meaning of this output will be explained in [the next chapter](./Tacit-Programming.ipynb#Tree-Diagram).\n",
+    "The exact meaning of this output will be explained in [the next chapter](./Tacit-Programming.ipynb#Inspecting-Tacit-Functions).\n",
     "For now, it suffices to understand that it does _not_ the output of `(-@idx) vector`.\n",
     "\n",
     "In order for APL to know that `idx` is the right _operand_ and `vector` is the right _argument_, we must separate them in some way.\n",