I think the invention of Fold verbs is incredibly powerful, so I use them.
But, as you understand,
I think that these verbs can be made even stronger by making a slight
improvement.
Sergey.
25.02.2021 19:51, Eric Iverson пишет:
I am a member of the silent majority on this issue.
I have been pleased with the civility of the fold discussion considering
how emotional language issues can be.
J is not designed by vote or committee. There are always going to be strong
disagreements. But we are a small community and are best served by, at the
appropriate time, burying those disagreements and moving on. I think that
time has come for fold.
J is the better for having fold. Let's focus now on using it and sharing
how it can be used. Some labs or wiki pages would be nice!
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:25 AM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
Good point about the silent ones: you’re right, I guess.
I still disagree regarding fold being used the way you tell us.
What you want to do can be done with / and the likes.
Again, the main advantage of the fold verbs from my pont of view
is that there may be any kind of initial data processed by v
in a way given by x’s items’ values.
But let’s just settle on “we agree to disagree” – I don’t think
further back and forth will lead us somewhere.
(and maybe I need to get some rest ere I write more rubbish here)
Hauke
Am 25.02.21 um 17:19 schrieb 'Sergey Kamenev' via Programming:
I think Henry Rich is most likely a genius programmer.
By the way, I am a supporter of meritocracy,
when the weight of a person's voice depends on his merits.
But a programming language is written for the community.
And so the voice of the community when discussing new features
should carry a lot of weight.
The definition of a fold itself implies that there is an array that will
fold.
However, the initial value does not have to be an array,
but what is collapsed arg must be an array.
Right argument have more arrayness in comparing with left arg.
The silent majority most likely does not use Fold verbs,
therefore they are silent, since this topic does not concern them.
Sergey.
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