Roger Hui wrote: > Memoization will indeed be in J6.02. See > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Memoization > I'm glad to hear it: I think this a useful step.
> I think your beef is against "loopy" or conditional > code on small amounts of data, traditionally a > weak area in the APL language family, and less > so against recursion. > After rereading what I wrote, I see that this is indeed what I am complaining about. The issue is exposed by recursion, since there must be some conditional code to separate the base case from the recursive case. If I can see how to do it, I try to replace recursion with a forward method in which the recursive case is guaranteed to be computed, and memoization makes this a lot easier. Best wisehs, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
