> Anyways, if you are not in a function > definition it uses the name you > are assigning to as a name in the > current locale.
Yes, but an important clarification for newcomers to J is that the normal script loading mechanisms, load'script.ijs' and require'script.ijs' (this latter one could be named loadOnlyOnce) wrap your scripts in function definitions. This fact is transparent to the user, and has almost no material implications, except that it permits local assignments in a script, outside of function definitions in that script, to act as true-blue locals. They exist and act normally during the script loading phase, and evaporate thereafter. And, since the J IDE uses load and require to run (temporary) scripts during development, you can use local names with abandon, and they won't pollute any namespace. This allows the IJS window to function as a really nice scratchpad. -Dan Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyways, if you are not in a function definition it uses the name you > are assigning to as a name in the current locale. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
