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?
>
>
>
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