On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:06 PM, david alis <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raul Miller wrote on Mon Sep 20 01:01:24 HKT 2010 >> eraseLocale=: 3 : 0 >> (y)=:1 >> erase y >> ) > > If I change =: to =. then the verb doesn't work. > Why is that?
Because =. assigns local names, rather than locale names. > If a name is repeated as in > eraseLocale 'data data' > then 'data' is deleted in two locales. Yes. Here is how you can prevent that: erase~.;:y And, you should probably suppress the result from erase. (y)=:1 erase~.;:y i.0 0 -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
