Dan, >> I came up with, "In x, where do I find y?"
> And you didn't find that mouthful a bit convoluted? Even the English sounds backwards to me. > Plus, it's begs the question somewhat: you memorized a phrase that described what iota did > do, not what you would've expected a "lookup function" to do. Well, I guess we disagree about how convoluted/backwards my little phrase was. To a large degree, I am comfortable beginning sentences with prepositional phrases. And APL being the first programming language I ever learned, I didn't have any expectations about what the syntax of a "lookup function" ought to be, so iota never seemed odd. It thought it was miraculous to have something so handy at all! I do agree with Joey Tuttle's statement that, back when J was born, that would have been the time to make changes like this. But tradition dies hard, and that's not always a terrible thing. /Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
