On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Roy A. Crabtree <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been putting some attention to "lifting," starting with lambda >> lifting. This is another concept that seems to get a good deal of >> attention in functional-programming circles, except when Iverson >> languages such as J are in mind. It looks to me like array-support >> covers much of what lifting is designed to accomplish. > > > Not so much the array support, but the natural flow of the language itself > > ...
The function in question can be written in J such that all values used are scalars. If done that way it would be possible to define an adverb that would lift the processing in the manner shown in the example. Tracy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
