I wrote: > I wish the interpreter optimized tail calls, and my > intuition is that it would be easy to identify optimizable > verbs algebraically. At least the tacit ones.
Raul responded: > It seems to me that ^: already lets us deal adequately > with the easily optimizable cases? I made a similar request years ago [1], and Roger gave a similar response [2]. My reaction now is the same as it is then: I use J specifically because I don't like managing details for myself. J is Turing complete, so of course I could code around this limitation. I could code around anything. But I don't want to [3]. -Dan [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2003-August/013578.html [2] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2003-August/015571.html [3] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2006-February/001252.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
