Re: Lack of software abstractions

I wrote:
> I've coded all this up at
>
>    http://www.jsoftware.com/svn/DanBron/trunk/environment/fqn.ijs

Whoops, just realized that code depends on the name  reduce_prefix  .   
Remember my thread a couple of months ago, entitled "I know a shortcut"?

   http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2006-December/004568.html

Well, I never found the beautiful solution I was looking for (so I  
left my production code slow but correct).  But, in retrospect, I  
realized the proof-of-concept challenge I posted, "reduce prefix",  
actually has its uses.  So I kept it around.  You can find it here:

   http://www.jsoftware.com/svn/DanBron/trunk/environment/reduce_prefix.ijs

Thinking back, R.E.Boss posted a solution to my challenge,

   http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2006-December/004579.html

which is probably superior.  I'm embarrassed to admit that I never  
read through it.  At the very least, it has no explicit loops, unlike  
mine.

In any case, for FQN.ijs to work, you'll need to define  reduce_prefix  
 .  You can do this by having the script  require 'reduce_prefix.ijs'  
 or by putting the definition (either Boss' or mine) in FQN.ijs itself.

-Dan