Chris Burke wrote:
Your point about having large numbers of definitions makes the script approach even more attractive. You can have as many scripts as you like, organized in directories, each with a manageable number of definitions.
Just to support Chris' argument, if your application consists more than one script file, it should use J's project manager. With project manager, you can use Find-in-Files (it even supports regex) to locate any definition easily. eg. to find the definition of a verb "foo", do FIF for "foo=:". And PM is essential for deployment as a single standalone script.
Script files also allow source version control with open-source tool like svn. APL workspace also has version control tool but it is not open-source or free afaik.
Script vs workspace is not a theoretic debate, it will be "survival of the fit". -- regards, bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
