> On Oct 6, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On the other hand the sentence
>> a =: ('b' ,~ 3 ,~ ]) a=: 3 1 4 1 5 9 2
>
> This is not inplaceable because the block has a usecount of 2 after the
> assignment
I don't understand why the usecount has to increase after the assignment.
I guess it's not related to literal, because the sentence
a=:('b',~3,~])a=:i.5
is not inplaced either. So the data (0 1 2 3 4) from the executing of i.5,
have a usecount of 2 after the assignment. It is very counterintuitive,
because any verb left of the assignment is not able to touch the result of i.5
directly without going through the reference from a. I guess in principle,
after massive amount of change to the reference counting part of the code, we
could make it such that the use count is one after assignment of name=:(data
without a name) immediately.
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