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by gjulianm
1776 days ago
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> here is an inner one, {x,+/-2#x}, and the outer one (the entire thing So in the inner one, x is the argument of the inner function or the argument of the outer one? Is x always an argument to anonymous functions? > / (like a lot of k symbols) does a few different things depending on context That's a recipe for confusion. > Sure, there may be some complexities or questions, but there are in all languages I can go back to the initial example: just browse other implementations of Fibonacci in different languages. For most of them you can actually understand a bit what's happening, even if it's a different paradigm (e.g, I can understand the Haskell or Clojure implementations without too many issues, and in fact I can learn things about the language from that). But operators that do different things depending on context, insistence on non-standard symbols, weird scope issues... That's not "complexities or questions that are in all languages", that's a recipe for confusion and extra complexity that you need to have in mind on top of the complexity of whatever you are coding. |
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I'm not denying it is probably more possible to gain a superficial understanding of what code written in other languages does than code written in k to someone who's never seen k before. This just doesn't seem like that important of a language feature. The 'confusion and extra complexity' you mention wouldn't really confuse anyone who'd tried k for more than a couple of hours (at most).