Beside

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Beside (∘), Compose or After is a primitive operator. It shares the glyph Jot (<source lang=apl inline>∘</syntaxhighlight>) with Bind. Called dyadically with function operands <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> and <source lang=apl inline>g</syntaxhighlight>, it uses <source lang=apl inline>g</syntaxhighlight> monadically to pre-processes the right argument before applying <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> to the given left argument and pre-processed right argument. Called monadically with operands <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> and <source lang=apl inline>g</syntaxhighlight>, it applies <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> to the result of applying <source lang=apl inline>g</syntaxhighlight> to the argument.

In usage, <source lang=apl inline>X f∘g Y</syntaxhighlight> is equivalent to <source lang=apl inline>X f g Y</syntaxhighlight>, and <source lang=apl inline>f∘g Y</syntaxhighlight> is equivalent to <source lang=apl inline>f g Y</syntaxhighlight>. Thus, beside can be defined as the dop <source lang=apl inline>{⍺←⊢ ⋄ ⍺ ⍺⍺ ⍵⍵ ⍵}</syntaxhighlight>.

Examples

When used monadically, <source lang=apl inline>f∘g</syntaxhighlight> behaves the same as an atop:

<source lang=apl> 

     -∘÷ 2

¯0.5 

     ⍝ same as
     -(÷2)

¯0.5 </syntaxhighlight>

When used dyadically, <source lang=apl inline>f∘g</syntaxhighlight> forms a dyadic hook:

<source lang=apl> 

     'oy'≡∘⌽'yo'

1 

     ⍝ same as
     'oy'≡⌽'yo'

1 </syntaxhighlight>

When used monadically with Commute, <source lang=apl inline>f∘g</syntaxhighlight> forms a monadic hook: <source lang=apl> 

     ≡∘⌽⍨'UwU'

1 

     ⍝ same as this, because operators are left-associative, unlike functions which are right-associative
     (≡∘⌽)⍨'UwU'

1 

     ⍝ same as
     'UwU'≡⌽'UwU'

1 </syntaxhighlight>

External links

Lessons

Documentation


APL built-ins [edit]
Primitives (Timeline) Functions
Scalar
Monadic Conjugate ∙ Negate ∙ Signum ∙ Reciprocal ∙ Magnitude ∙ Exponential ∙ Natural Logarithm ∙ Floor ∙ Ceiling ∙ Factorial ∙ Not ∙ Pi Times ∙ Roll ∙ Type ∙ Imaginary ∙ Square Root ∙ Round
Dyadic Add ∙ Subtract ∙ Times ∙ Divide ∙ Residue ∙ Power ∙ Logarithm ∙ Minimum ∙ Maximum ∙ Binomial ∙ Comparison functions ∙ Boolean functions (And, Or, Nand, Nor) ∙ GCD ∙ LCM ∙ Circular ∙ Complex ∙ Root
Non-Scalar
Structural Shape ∙ Reshape ∙ Tally ∙ Depth ∙ Ravel ∙ Enlist ∙ Table ∙ Catenate ∙ Reverse ∙ Rotate ∙ Transpose ∙ Raze ∙ Mix ∙ Split ∙ Enclose ∙ Nest ∙ Cut (K) ∙ Pair ∙ Link ∙ Partitioned Enclose ∙ Partition
Selection First ∙ Pick ∙ Take ∙ Drop ∙ Unique ∙ Identity ∙ Stop ∙ Select ∙ Replicate ∙ Expand ∙ Set functions (Intersection ∙ Union ∙ Without) ∙ Bracket indexing ∙ Index ∙ Cartesian Product ∙ Sort
Selector Index generator ∙ Grade ∙ Index Of ∙ Interval Index ∙ Indices ∙ Deal ∙ Prefix and suffix vectors
Computational Match ∙ Not Match ∙ Membership ∙ Find ∙ Nub Sieve ∙ Encode ∙ Decode ∙ Matrix Inverse ∙ Matrix Divide ∙ Format ∙ Execute ∙ Materialise ∙ Range
Operators Monadic Each ∙ Commute ∙ Constant ∙ Replicate ∙ Expand ∙ Reduce ∙ Windowed Reduce ∙ Scan ∙ Outer Product ∙ Key ∙ I-Beam ∙ Spawn ∙ Function axis ∙ Identity (Null, Ident)
Dyadic Bind ∙ Compositions (Compose, Reverse Compose, Beside, Withe, Atop, Over) ∙ Inner Product ∙ Determinant ∙ Power ∙ At ∙ Under ∙ Rank ∙ Depth ∙ Variant ∙ Stencil ∙ Cut ∙ Direct definition (operator) ∙ Identity (Lev, Dex)
Quad names Index origin ∙ Comparison tolerance ∙ Migration level ∙ Atomic vector
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