[PD] Need Help Understanding pack

[Phil Stone]

Happens to me all the time -- I have to point when I'm a passenger 
giving directions to a driver -- I usually say the wrong one first.

I thought it was because I'm left-handed (or slightly brain-damaged).


Phil


On 2/9/11 1:16 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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