> -----Original Message-----
> From: Programming [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Roger Hui
> Sent: maandag 18 januari 2016 20:36
> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Definition: Frame of an argument
> 
> Among old timers, "frame" has an historical ambiguity.  
(...)
> To document
> the latter, Dyalog resurrected "outer shape".  Dyalog also resurrected
> "major cell" because "item" already has an entrenched different meaning in
> the APL2 family.

I always loved the analogy between "atom" and "item", short for the minimal and 
maximal (non-trivial) cell.


R.E. Boss
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