The term that the relevant dictionary page uses to distinguish this case is "indirectly"
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d001.htm (Note that I am linking the J602 copy of the dictionary page, instead of the j701 copy because that's what http://www.jsoftware.com/help.htm links to. This issue does not matter here -- assignment has not changed -- but I thought it might be worth mentioning.) FYI, -- Raul On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Steven Taylor <tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > just looking for a definition of this quoted variable assignment behaviour > that I leaned about on this forum. What's it called in J parlance? > > 'a b c' =. 1;2;3 > > 'a2 b2 c2' =. 1 2 3 > > Also, it looks like we get an unbox for free > > (a2=a),(b2=b),(c2=c) > 1 1 1 > > thanks, > -Steven > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
