On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alex Gian <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact, it would seem that the natural J way would be not to try > shoehorn "filter" into a dyadic verb that way at all, which would > account for some of the more experienced members' bemusement at my > insistence. > > Would that be a fair comment?
Yes, I imagine so. I remember when I first started programming in J, I spent a lot of time thinking about writing "utilities" which were really just syntactic sugar. And, after countless hours I eventually realized that I was not accomplishing anything useful with them. I had been trying to solve problems imposed by the design of other languages and their instructional materials. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
