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Comment by gandercrews | Hacker News Reader

rewritten apl version w/ lambdas and commute (vs assignment & parens):

          {⍵/⍨⍵<50}{2*⍨⍵/⍨1=2|⍵}⍳10
    1 9 25 49

About as short as I can make it, and while its longer than the pandas solution, the primitives are significantly more general (sqr, odd - why include these as language primitives?).

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Thanks! It's been a long time since I tried APL. All I could remember was ⍳ and right-to-left evaluation. The rest was through monkeying around with Rosetta Code examples.

As to your "why" question - I'm assuming to make a neat demo. Something like:

  >>> from math import cos, sin
  >>> [s for i in range(50) if i&1 and cos(s:=i*i) < sin(i)]
  [1, 9, 49, 225, 361, 441, 625, 1089, 1521, 1681, 2025, 2209]

seems more difficult to pull off in a pipeline API.

nah its pretty straightforward w/ higher order fns.

one of many possible solutions:

          {(1○⍺)>2○⍵} {(⍹ ⍵)/⍨⍵ ⍶ ⍹ ⍵} {⍵*2} {⍵/⍨2|⍵}⍳50
    1 9 49 225 361 441 625 1089 1521 1681 2025 2209

Oh, sorry, I was too clever by half. I should have been more specific - hard to pull off in Panda.

Thanks for an APL solution in any case!

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