On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Explicitly including the locale in a name makes a local copula (=.) a global
> assignment. [...]
> It also lets you get
> around the error message about making an assignment of a global name when
> the name already exists as a local name.
You don't need this feature for that, for assigning to a name with
locale with the =: copula also lets you do that. For example,
3 :('a =. 5';'a =: 2') 0
|domain error
| a =:2
3 :('a =. 5';'a_base_ =: 2') 0
2
Ambrus
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