Yes - "transitive closure" will become my new catchphrase for the way we state things in J-world that render them opaque to everyone but college math professors and a few fellow travelers. As I've mentioned before, when I originally needed to do this, it was simpler for me to write a crude text folder than to find the code I knew already existed.
Also, due to the problem of _some_ pages being immutable, we sometimes must do as you say and "write another page discussing such issues... linked to" the page containing the core of the matter. I plan to do this when I update my essay on convex hulls ( http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/convexHull ) to explore my own attempts at this which led me to a use for Gray codes. However, in this case, I can update the Gray code page so the link is bi-directional. Your argument for "historical purity" carries some weight but at a cost as well. On 4/1/08, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > ... but now, since we've started using "#pragma keywords", when I search > for "line > > > wrap", I find a relevant page even though it does not ostensibly have > that > > phrase in it. > > > Presumably you mean http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Text_Formatting > which contains '#pragma keywords transitive closure, fold text, line > wrap, word wrap' > but does not use the words "fold" nor "wrap" in the text (but the > text does use phrases like "transitive closure" already, for example). > > Anyways, I guess I am disappointed that this essay does not document that > fmt solves the line wrap or text folding problem as opposed to other kinds > of > text formatting (such as we might use in J's forms, or perhaps related to > html > or wiki formatting). I mean, yes, that becomes obvious when you read the > essay but if the historical purity of the essay must be preserved, perhaps > a > better approach would have been to write another page discussing such > issues > which linked to it? > > > -- > > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
