Yes, it's an oddball.  The (unavoidable) trouble with
fit/variant is that from the behaviour of f!.a you 
can not predict the behaviour of g!.b.



----- Original Message -----
From: Don Guinn <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009 5:00
Subject: Re: [Jchat] Operators and Functions
To: Chat forum <[email protected]>

> Like the"variant" operator. I guess the "fit" conjunction came 
> from that.
> But "fit" has always bothered me in that it will not take a 
> named left
> argument. Nor can it be used with user definitions. It's kind of 
> an odd-ball
> of the primitives.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > A digital version of Ken Iverson's seminal 1978 paper,
> > "Operators and Functions" is now available on-line:
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/opfns.htm
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