Can you link to jsoftware.com pages? I'm not sure if that violates any
reference requirements

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/loopless_code_i_verbs_have_r.htm

This is what I searched for:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rank+looping&sitesearch=jsoftware.com&btnG=Search



On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:58 AM devonmcc <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am trying to bring the Wikipedia page on "rank (J programming language)"
> into compliance with the guidelines by inserting more inline references but
> am stumped by that page's initial assertion that rank is a generalization
> of looping, as well as the subsequent claims about rank generalizing "map"
> and "maplist".
> Searches for a word like "rank" bring up many irrelevant hits even when
> included with programming-specific terms.  Also, the best reference I have
> found so far - www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jrslepak/typed-j.pdf - uses language
> like "...a form of rank...which renders much of a program's control
> structure implicit by lifting base operators to higher-dimensional array
> structures."  I will have to include this in the references to use it but
> was hoping to find an older document, preferably one already in the
> references, but have been stymied by the lack of explicit reference to
> avoiding loops by using rank because it seems so obvious that it is only
> implied.
> In any case, a reference to the assertions about "map" and such would also
> be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Devon
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