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lyxal

06:11

Anti bananas

AviFS

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@lyxal guysssss i'm dying

thank you

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Dec 2 at 23:34, by lyxal

> In APL, you can use the Pick function to select every 4th item in a list. The syntax for this would be Pick n m list, where n is the step size, m is the starting index, and list is the list you want to select items from. So, to select every 4th item in a list, you would use the following syntax:

Dec 2 at 23:34, by lyxal

Pick 4 1 list

AviFS

06:23

@user Try giving it the CGCC special, a polyglot ;)

lyxal

Somehow I doubt Pick 4 1 list is valid apl

AviFS

@lyxal That's weird.

I was gonna say, that works if you just do:

Pick←⊃

But that still doesn't work for like a ton of reasons...

lyxal

That's right

AviFS

I'm not even aware of such a primitive in Dyalog. And I'd be very surprised if it existed in any APL.

It's like it just APL-ized Python, haha

lyxal

I thought "maybe it can't Unicode so it's just using English names" but for a start, if there was a primitive to get every 4th item, it'd be dyadic, not monadic. And then what's the 1 for?

AviFS

06:28

well also, that's not how apl functions work

you don't have 3 args on the right and none on the left

@lyxal It's the starting index. Didn't you read :pp

@lyxal Uh oh, does that mean it's learned the joke, and it's gonna try it on someone else :p