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 This seems like a good place for a brief and entirely optional discussion of how APL handles functions and why it does it this way. As mentioned above, APL's functions are second class rather than first class. However, it's worth noting that the barriers to making functions first-class objects have been entirely syntactic and conceptual, not technical. In fact, the J language has for a long time had [a bug](http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2013-January/031260.html) that allows an array containing a function to be created: by selecting from the array, the function itself can even be passed through tacit functions as an argument!
 
-The primary reason why APL doesn't allow functions to be passed as arguments is probably syntax: in particular, there's no way to say that a function should be used as the left argument to another function, as an expression like `F G x` with functions `F` and `G` and an array `x` will simply be evaluated as two monadic function applications. However, there's no syntactic rule that prevents a function from returning a function, and Dyalog APL for example allows this (so `⍎'+'` returns the function `+`). Dyalog's `⎕OR` is another interesting phenomenon in this context: it creates an array from a function or operator, which can then be used as an element or argument like any array. The mechanism is essentially the same as BQN's first class functions, and in fact `⎕OR`s even share a form of BQN's [syntactic type erasure](../problems.md#syntactic-type-erasure), as a `⎕OR` of a function passed as an operand magically becomes a function again. But outside of this property, it's cumbersome and slow to convert functions to and from `⎕OR`s, so they don't work very well as a first-class function mechanism.
+The primary reason why APL doesn't allow functions to be passed as arguments is probably syntax: in particular, there's no way to say that a function should be used as the left argument to another function, as an expression like `F G x` with functions `F` and `G` and an array `x` will simply be evaluated as two monadic function applications. However, there's no syntactic rule that prevents a function from returning a function, and Dyalog APL for example allows this (so `⍎'+'` returns the function `+`). Dyalog's `⎕OR` is another interesting phenomenon in this context: it creates an array from a function or operator, which can then be used as an element or argument like any array. The mechanism is essentially the same as BQN's first class functions, and in fact `⎕OR`s even share a form of BQN's [syntactic type erasure](../commentary/problems.md#syntactic-type-erasure), as a `⎕OR` of a function passed as an operand magically becomes a function again. But outside of this property, it's cumbersome and slow to convert functions to and from `⎕OR`s, so they don't work very well as a first-class function mechanism.
 
 Another reason for APL's reluctance to adopt first-class functions is that Iverson and others seemed to believe that functions fundamentally are not a kind of data, because it's impossible to uniquely represent, compare, and order them. One effect of this viewpoint is J's gerund mechanism, which converts a function to an array representation, primarily so that lists of gerunds can be created. Gerunds are nested arrays containing character vectors at the leaves, so they are arrays as Iverson thought of them. However, I consider this conversion of functions to arrays, intended to avoid arrays that contain "black box" functions, to be a mistake: while it doesn't compromise the purity of arrays, it gives the illusion that a function corresponds to a particular array, which is not true from the mathematical perspective of functions as mappings from an arbitrary input to an output. I also think the experience of countless languages with first-class functions shows that there is no practical issue with arrays that contain functions. While having all arrays be concrete entities with a unique canonical representation seems desirable, I don't find the existence of arrays without this property to be detract from working with arrays that do have it.