Another interesting point is that giving a locale to a name forces a local
copula (=.) to become global.
   test=:3 : 0
z=.1 2 3
'z_base_ a'=.4 5 6;7 8 9
z,:a
)
   test''
1 2 3
7 8 9
   z
4 5 6

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:34 AM, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IIRC ancient J had 'given name' that can be assigned once and can not
> > be changed afterwards.
>
> I have seen that, and while it is a related idea, I currently feel that
> it's
> too brutal for a scripting environment.
>
> --
> Raul
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