Primitive or addon? The readily available, well documented primitives are easy to use. For instance, I have avoided the calculus addon while I would have used those primitives since removal. The tagged bag example from the object oriented programming lab is a hash. Were the hash data type builtin, such verbs as `from' and `key amend' would fit naturally.
|Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:24:50 -0400 |From: Henry Rich <[email protected]> |To: [email protected] |Subject: [Jprogramming] Hashing primitives WAS: Farewell for now! |Message-ID: <[email protected]> |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed | |If we could come up with a good spec for hashing primitives, we could |implement it. JE does lots of hashing, notably in the i.-family, but |the table is not exposed to the user. When I have thought about hashing |primitives, I have ended up deciding it could be done in an addon just |as well as in a primitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
