Why is a help verb more helpful than the menu item?

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> I suggest there be a noun 'help' that, when typed at the J prompt, takes
> you to the jhelp page.
>
> My initial thought was to have a verb to be used in the form
>
>   help ''
>
> but then that would presume the user already knew about J syntax.
>
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