rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) (04/22/91)
in a recent posting, Greg Jaxon said something to the effect that ( I wish I knew how to undelete messages) "I like to be able to decompose my data explicitly, so that I can tell what's going on". This was in support of the APL2 approach to composition, etc (Use partitioned enclose or enclose with axis, then use EACH a lot). Dialects such as APL2 FORCE you do use this approach. J and SHARP APL ALLOW you to use this approach, but ALSO offer you the opportunity to use rank and other adverbs to achieve the same result in other ways. Remember, as Ferdinand Feghoot said of Captain Cook: One man's meat is another man's poi, son! Robert Bernecky rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca Snake Island Research Inc (416) 368-6944 FAX: (416) 360-4694 18 Fifth Street, Ward's Island Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 Canada