On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > It does seem complicated, doesn't it? I think much of this has to do with > our own customizations. With this new version, I'm attempting to reduce > the number of idiosyncratic verbs I define in my startup and to adhere to > the existing customs as much as possible. However, I was dismayed to find > that the supplied "dir" verb returns information in a much less useful > format than my own simple definition "dir=: 1!:0@<".
This definition of dir has been there almost from the start of J, but in the dir.ijs script. One reason for combining dir and other scripts into stdlib is to standardize on their use, and avoid this kind of problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
