Matthew Brand:
> For example, I wanted to trim the white space out of a 
> string (because I forgot how to do it)  so I typed  
> "trim whitespace" 

Gosi:
> Searching for remove blanks
> will probably give you what you want 

Yes, but that still means anyone who thinks of "removing blanks" as "trimming 
whitespace" is left in the lurch.  This problem has arisen before.  

At NYCJUG we considered copying VB's index (The relevant entries) and linking 
them appropriately in the J universe.  

In the Forums, somone once suggested "tag clouds", an idea I liked.  However, 
IIRC, someone else, with library science experience, responded that 
user-defined indicies usually make the problem worse.

There has to be a decent solution for this.  How do other languages do it?  I 
know for Perl, my searchable index was IRC (though it was a bit cranky and 
snarky).  Perhaps these Forums are our searchable index.  I imagine most 
"serious" Jers will join them.

-Dan

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