I was having a similar discussion with my
colleague Seth Breidbart. I said, "Save a
microsecond here and a microsecond there and
pretty soon --"
"-- you'd have a millisecond," Seth cut in.
----- Original Message -----
From: Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Why is ARGV boxed if the list is homogeneous?
> How much time does this waste?
>
> It _saves_ time when I don't have to re-invent command-line
> parsing, e.g.
>
> >jconsole.exe "An argument with embedded blanks"
>
> 1{ARGV_j_
> +--------------------------------+
> |An argument with embedded blanks|
> +--------------------------------+
>
>
> On 5/19/07, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that boxed args must be unboxed before use, wasting time.
> > Further, since a J program can only have strings in ARGV, what
> is the
> > point?
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