I had a similar omission and just inserted its definition in the text before it was used. Also, I defined a 3 by 3 array z using ]z=:3 3&$ (when z was just displayed in the original text). I hope that is acceptable.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Question on a stylistic issue: I'm editing chapter 33 ("Perming and > Combing") where "ptof" is used without first being defined. I can find its > definition in the "code" section so it's not too much of a problem but it > does mean that my initial copy and paste into a J session got a value > error. > > Should we insist on defining things in the examples before we use them? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
