Call them "evaluation modifiers" because they are modifiers which change how evaluation takes place.
On 10/21/2011 5:05 PM, Roger Hui wrote: > Operators (adverbs and conjunction) in APL/J can be classified into at least > to classes. > > The first class are what I call "combinators", that combine their operands > (function arguments) in various ways and apply to their array arguments *in > toto* (ignoring rank for the moment). Examples of this class are f&g, f@g, > f&.g, f^:n, etc., including fork. > > The second class are, for lack of a better term, "slice and dice" > operators. Functions derived from them partition, reorder, or otherwise > select their array arguments in various ways, and apply the operand > functions to the partitions, reorderings, selections. Examples of this > class are f"r, f/, f\ f\. etc. > > Is there a better term, more respectable, or better known to the FP > community, or more descriptive, or ... just better, than "slice and dice"? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
