No worries Dan, you are much better than me; I sometimes "disappear" for
weeks at a time.
Actually, I have a lot less less misgivings about $: since Thomas
implemented the adverb O. in Jx. One reason is the bottom table in [0].
[0]. Trampolining (was Adler-32)
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2014-August/039080.html
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pepe wrote:
> > Dan, if you are reading this ... I wonder if you wrote a recursive
> > prototype for nest2Box, or if you could write one, which you could
> > share.
>
> Then, later:
> > Never mind; I found:
> >
> http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2011-November/025493.html
> > and I should be able to take it from there.
>
> Sorry for the delayed replies, I only catch up with the Forums sporidically
> these days. Now, I understand you have few misgivings about $: since:
>
> > One can now embed anonymous recursive verbs even
> > when one is using an official interpreter.
>
> But still, one caveat about using $: remains! As I wrote in the message
> you linked to above:
>
> > This assumes you trust $: not to abort with a stack error, which it
> does
> > sometimes. Though I'd only expect that with long and deeply-nested
> > arguments.
>
> Though with your recent TCO experiments, I imagine this risk has been
> reduced as well [1]. BTW, the whole TCO thing made me feel quite
> validated; I advocated (agitated?) for that feature years ago [2,3], and
> was shot down on multiple fronts. Vindication!
>
> -Dan
>
> PS: I really have to spend some time going through your Mu et al, but
> recently, playing with J seems permanently just out of reach, like
> Tantalus' apple.
>
> [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-May/014714.html
> [2] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2003-August/013578.html
> [3]
> http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-December/017357.html
>
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