In a J session display echo and smoutput and you will see that they are the same. The original smoutput was windows centric (sm stood for session manager and was part of a large family of verbs).
echo is quicker to type and read and should probably be preferred. On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:06 AM Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On6 Mar 2020 12:13:51,Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > ... > > <@:([ echo@'Invoked.')^:(3 2 1) 0 > > Invoked. > > Invoked. > > Invoked. > > Invoked.… > > > This is the first time I ever say “echo”. It appears in scores of scripts > in addons. > > Where is it defined, and where is it documented? > > —— > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Professor Emeritus > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > University of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA USA > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
