I usually start from http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm when I am trying to find something, and I have made it a point to have visited every page that can be linked from there (over time -- maybe one page every day or three back when I was doing that) so I have a rough idea of what's where.
In this case, the interesting bit would have been under the "Controls" link. In http://www.jsoftware.com/help/index/a.htm the relevant pages would be under "Control Structures". Also handy are google searches that include: site:jsoftware.com inurl:dictionary -- Raul On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Tom Szczesny <[email protected]> wrote: > Also (interestingly): > 1) There is no entry for "return." in the index. > 2) Until I got the your responses to my email, I could not find a > relevant entry in > forum search for "return" > > It might be just a further manifestation of my dyslexia, but I find it > somewhat > difficult to find answers to specific questions in the J help documents. > > Anyway, thanks again for your quick response. > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Tom Szczesny <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks. >> I was looking for a monadic primitive verb, >> but of course, in J, it is a control structure. >> (It is not listed as one of the control structures in the Primer). >> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >>> How about: >>> 99 return. >>> >>> corresponds (roughly) to (APL): >>> >>> āzāa foo b >>> ... >>> ā0,zā99 >>> ... >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> In some APL-related languages there exists a nomadic verb for "early >>>> return" from a defined function. In A+ this is "result" (nomadic left >>>> arrow). In k this is nomadic colon. Does a similar capability exist in J? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
