I'm not sure about 'should'. I think the case needs to be made. There is no room in the memory header, whose format cannot be changed because of required compatibility with existing mapped files.
You could use a word after the boxed data to hold the level. Henry Rich On Sun, May 15, 2022, 9:38 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, L. finds the depth of a boxed array by recursively > inspecting all contained boxes (vo.c -- jtlevel1). > > Conceptually, this should be a header attribute for boxed arrays. > > I expect there's some "deep" issues which have prevented us from using > that approach. Does anyone have a good summary of them? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
