(Gmail hid this post from me on first reading)... I do exactly what Raul does. Right down to searching the site using Google: site:jsoftware.com. (I have this marvellous little Mac app: http://notational.net -- a typed/pasted link is instantly clickable, so I keep template searches setup and ready.)
I was unfair about there being a dearth of task-oriented documentation. The J Dictionary itself has headings in its Table of Contents: http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/contents.htm which are at least suggestive of tasks. Ditto the J Phrasebook (Phr): http://jsoftware.com/help/phrases/contents.htm But how do you write task-oriented material? Only by being a "task specialist" in some given domain. And there are many possible domains... One more place not to miss. All too often I've solved a problem after hard graft, only to find someone's already written up the answer here: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays ...so I keep telling myself to check there first. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually start from > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm when I am trying > to find something, and I have made it a point to have visited every > page that can be linked from there (over time -- maybe one page every > day or three back when I was doing that) so I have a rough idea of > what's where. > > In this case, the interesting bit would have been under the "Controls" link. > > In http://www.jsoftware.com/help/index/a.htm the relevant pages would > be under "Control Structures". > > Also handy are google searches that include: > > site:jsoftware.com inurl:dictionary > > -- > Raul > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Tom Szczesny <[email protected]> wrote: >> Also (interestingly): >> 1) There is no entry for "return." in the index. >> 2) Until I got the your responses to my email, I could not find a >> relevant entry in >> forum search for "return" >> >> It might be just a further manifestation of my dyslexia, but I find it >> somewhat >> difficult to find answers to specific questions in the J help documents. >> >> Anyway, thanks again for your quick response. >> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Tom Szczesny <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Thanks. >>> I was looking for a monadic primitive verb, >>> but of course, in J, it is a control structure. >>> (It is not listed as one of the control structures in the Primer). >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> How about: >>>> 99 return. >>>> >>>> corresponds (roughly) to (APL): >>>> >>>> āzāa foo b >>>> ... >>>> ā0,zā99 >>>> ... >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> In some APL-related languages there exists a nomadic verb for "early >>>>> return" from a defined function. In A+ this is "result" (nomadic left >>>>> arrow). In k this is nomadic colon. Does a similar capability exist in >>>>> J? >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
