I'm fine with it so long it is not called variable which means a mutable entity whereas in J every name is immutable. eg. foo=: i. 9 foo=: 1+foo
the second line does not increment foo. The two foo refer to different arrays (different memory address). APL should also share this with J. Пнд, 25 Окт 2010, Ian Clark писал(а): > Thanks, Roger. > > So... if when referring to a statement: foo=: i. 9 > I call foo a "pronoun" and say it corresponds (kind-of) to a variable > in APL, nobody's going to disagree? > > Am I the only one who has a problem with this? > > Ian > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 124 lines snipped |=---] -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
