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At (@) is a primitive dyadic operator that is similar to J and K's Amend in functionality. In Dyalog APL, At handles a subset of the cases of the Under operator that pertain to modifying elements at specific positions in an array.

Description

At takes two operands, each of which can be an array or function, with varying effect: A call to At is of the form X(f@g)Y where X is optional.

  • g specifies the indices of the right argument that should be modified.
    • Function: Must apply monadically to Y, and return a boolean array of the same shape as Y, with ones at positions that should be amended.
    • Array: A vector (or scalar) of cell indices (of equal lengths) to amend. If the same index appears multiple times, the last amendment overrules any previous ones, meaning that amendments are not stacked. This is in contrast to modified assignment where multiple specifications of the same parts of the array will be processed sequentially.
  • f specifies what happens to the elements at those positions.
    • Function: Is applied once on an array whose major cells are the selected cells. If X is present, then it is bound to f so X f@g Y is equivalent to X∘f@g Y.
    • Array: Replaces the selected elements and must either have the same shape as the array whose major cells are the selected cells, or be a scalar, which then replaces all selected cells.

Each possible derived function can be applied monadically or dyadically, except if the left operand (f) is an array, in which case, only the monadic derived function is defined.

Examples

      ⍝ Simple replacement
      (1 2 3@4 5 6)7 5 4 10 3 6 9 2 1 8
7 5 4 1 2 3 9 2 1 8
      (0@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5
1 0 3 0 5
      ⍝ f is a function
      10 (×@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5
1 20 3 40 5
      (÷@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5
1 0.5 3 0.25 5
      ⍝ g is a function
      '*'@(2∘|) 1 2 3 4 5  ⍝ Boolean selection 1 0 1 0 1
* 2 * 4 *
      ⍝ f and g are functions
      10 (×@(≤∘3)) 3 1 4 1 5
30 10 4 10 5
      ⌽@(2∘|) 1 2 3 4 5  ⍝ Reversal of sub-array 1 3 5
5 2 3 4 1

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Prefix friendly @ by Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui


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