On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 7:38 AM Arnab Chakraborty <damd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the code. But I did not quite comprehend the phrase "special > code". Do you mean that the hook (i. <./) gets replaced by some low level C > code, instead of being parsed as a general hook?
I believe it's that (i. <./) gets a special low level C implementation after being parsed as a general hook. (Parsing still happens as normal -- but already there are a variety of implementations that get used for any single parse. There's a lower level virtual machine here which implements the J primitives. It deals with the different machine types that can be used in arrays, and it also deals with choosing what to do based on the verbs that are used.) See also: https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/special.htm Currently, the line mentioning i.<./ appears twice on that page. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
