On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did find another useful idiom for accessing object instances that seems 
> close to what I wanted to do in the beginning.

I hope to some day understand what you are working on.

>> remember that J supports using boxed numbers to select from arrays
>
> I'm not aware of that, or don't know what you mean.

  (<2) {p:i.4
5
  (2) {p:i.4
5
  (<<2) {p:i.4
5
  (<<<2) {p:i.4
2 3 7

> Objects are useful for tracking resources (sockets or trying to manage 
> processes across cores or network nodes), and convenience of contextual 
> control flags (semi-global variables that are global to a context of related 
> fields).  Advanced control structures that track information across calls or 
> multiple functions.

This is as good a place as any to mention a page that Tracy Harms retweeted:

http://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2013/09/an-introduction-to-array-languages/

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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