See also http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Under



----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Hui <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, December 29, 2008 16:29
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] How to use ": in boxed conversion?
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>

> I'm sure there's some APL history here: why is this primitive called
> "under"?  The definition tells what it does, but what's it good for?
> That is, how (and for what purposes) is "under" used practically?
> Besides you all, who in the world would ever think of such an
> inversionof verbs?  I mean, it's sort of a "do it" and then
> "undo it" again after a key verb. 

http://keiapl.org/anec/#under0
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