And I think one advantage of the J terminology is to make a clean break from the muddled one of CS and avoid its unintended connotations.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can tell from common usage, what most coders mean by > "operator" are the things that are represented by symbols. So, "+" > and "*" are operators but something called "plus" or "times" would be > a function, even if these latter were exactly substitutable for the > former. Of course, this usage is loose and not particularly > illuminating. ... -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
