Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!itcyyz!yrloc!intern From: mgf@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Gfeller, Martin) Subject: Re: mixing it up: The role of fractional axis brackets Message-ID: <1991May6.204056.26134@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> Sender: intern@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Intern via QUADRAM) Reply-To: mgf@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Gfeller, Martin) Organization: Reuter:file Ltd. Date: 6 May 91 20:12:16 UT -----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox------------- no. 5166696 filed 18.58.03 mon 6 may 1991 from mgf to uclapl subj Re: mixing it up: The role of fractional axis brackets ref 5166626 Branch and assignment arrows are not functional as well. J maps them both to one, and calls it copula. I don't think copulas can be modified by adverbs, so they're not strictly functional in J either. But this is a hard area. /Martin ----------------------------------------------------------- This posting is forwarded from an internal Reuters mailbox. No statement or opinion contained herein should be taken as being Reuters policy, or even as being approved by Reuters, in any way.