[Jprogramming] Recursive algorithm

[Raul Miller]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Zsbán Ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> wrote:
> (For loops could have the advantage that I think jsoftware has made
> some vague statements on the mailing lists that if you use the rank
> operator on verbs with side effects, it might not always call the verb
> as many times or in the right order in some case of optimizations in
> future versions.  This is belivable because (u/\. y) already does such
> an optimization, and in fact I think that's a right idea.)

I do not recall any official statement of that nature, *ever*.

I believe that that is "folk wisdom" based on experience with other languages.

-- 
Raul