J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > Perhaps I am not clear on the motive for the change, but if it > is just that y is shorter than y. and thus more elegant in a way, > then you are saying that for this y, most often used only once in > a verb definition, we pay by typing yy everywhere.
I think a part of the motivation is that name__x., name__y., etc. are not valid names, and that for_x. and for_y. are valid commands. Ways of passing a locale as an argument to a function based based on the current rules (locale is a part of the name of a variable, and 'multicharacter.' forms are control words) seem to be less than ideal. Also, now that the system scripts have been changed to use x and y in place of x. and y., going back might introduce some problems. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
