[PD] Need Help Understanding pack

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Feb 9 10:16:33 CET 2011


On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Again, left-alignement helps thinking about and reading patches. See the
> subpatch for a solution without pipe - and without triggers as well. [trigger]
> is important, but only when objects don't have enough outlets themselves.
> [unpack 0 0 0] already has three outlets that, just like [t f f f] fire from
> left to right, so triggering explicitly is not needed. 

Oops. Please invert: "just like [t f f f] fires from right to left". 

71 of 364 (19.5%) college professors and 311 of 1185 (26.2%) college students
said that they occasionally, frequently or all of the time had difficulty when
they had to quickly identify right from left.
References:

    1. Brandt, J. and Mackavey, W. Left-right confusion and the perception of
    bilateral symmetry. International Journal of Neuroscience, 12:87-94, 1981.

    2. Hannay, H.J., Ciaccia, P.J., Kerr, J.W. and Barrett, D. Self-report of
    right-left confusion in college men and women. Perceptual and Motor Skills,
    70:451-457, 1990.

    3. Harris, L.J., Gitterman, S.R. University professors' self-descriptions
    of left-right confusability: sex and handedness differences. Perceptual and
    Motor Skills, 47:819-823, 1978. 

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/hands1.html

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht            Do You RjDj.me?          _ ______footils.org__



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