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Leslie Goldsmith, from I.P. Sharp to KX

The Array Cast

CHAPTER

Is It OK to Mix the Types?

The idea that you probably still want to favor homogeneous arrays, I think it's still valid because performance wise, nothing will beat them. You should not be allowed to mix the types because it will just get you into strange situations. So in J, if you add integers enough, they will wrap around and go to two to the 63 minus one up to negative two to the63. Whereas with Jay actually you choose and with K as well, you choose floats or integer.

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