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Henry Rich Reveals J with Threads J9.4

The Array Cast

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Is That a Significant Implementation Issue?

In J, you'd have to be explicit about unboxing. Well, if you stick it in a box, you don't have that problem. That's why I did that. And that's really what's happening in J as well, except we also do the, we do the whole unboxing unboxing transparently. But sticking it in abox effectively changes rank into an each - even though each is in the primitive of 'in' and 'out' In dialogue, because it's got this floating array model characters and numbers sort of leak out of boxes. So, yes, that would, it wouldn't work anyway to try to box up things. It's not impossible to

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