On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote: > (For loops could have the advantage that I think jsoftware has made > some vague statements on the mailing lists that if you use the rank > operator on verbs with side effects, it might not always call the verb > as many times or in the right order in some case of optimizations in > future versions. This is belivable because (u/\. y) already does such > an optimization, and in fact I think that's a right idea.)
I do not recall any official statement of that nature, *ever*. I believe that that is "folk wisdom" based on experience with other languages. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
