> Is there a better term, more respectable, or better known to the FP > community, or more descriptive, or ... just better, than "slice and dice"?
Google calls their function "mapreduce", which is really f/. Others have called the f/ operation a "fold". see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function) In fact, J is represented in the table about halfway down in the above link. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm