Bill Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sum and Product are probably the two most frequently used phrases of > > the form v/ and, as such, possibly worthy of their own special > > primitives or symbols. > > Mark, > > I'd like to respectfully disagree, even despite your longer list of > examples. While I know a language has got to live, I think J was > conceived out of a great, unifying concept that is very powerful. > Hiding things such as +/ makes what + and / do less transparent, thus > making it harder for people to see how each of those could be used in > other combinations. > > Besides, I suspect J doesn't really need such language changes.
My intent was not to suggest that J needs more primitives. Rather, I was trying to say that the argument that "having special primitives for specific instances of more general mechanisms" is bad because it obscures those general mechanims is a weak one, because J already has dozens of examples in which it already does exactly that. -- Mark D. Niemiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
