Hello everybody,
I recently stumbled upon some at least
for me counterintuitive (read: puzzling) behaviour:
In a verb like (>: X) {~ ], when X is a defined constant,
the constant expression (>: X) is substituted in the verb (as expected)
but in a conjunction M c N, when M and N are defined constant nouns,
constant expressions are not substituted in c’s body (not expected)
I would not want m c n to be evaluated time and again
when some part of it, just like in the case of the verb above,
could be evaluated once when defining the derived verb.
This should result in major savings of computational
resources so I’d have expected J to do this.
could anyone tell me why this is different from verbs?
kind regards,
Hauke Rehr
(Jena, Germany)
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