In the JProgramming forum, bill lam wrote:
> This should be a pre-historical artifact. Amend in the original J
> used linear index. I scanned the dictionary page for amend in J7
> (the 1993 version) which documented this behavior. Note the
> sentence,
>
> the values of ,x replace the values of (,j){,y
>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/WikiSandBox
I found the information on Bill's scanned page so much more verbose and
useful than the current dictionary (along with much clearer examples)
that it made me wonder:
Is there any way that JSoftware could (or would permit past users to)
scan all of the old user manuals (at least the "dictionary" portions of
them) and make them available either in the JWiki or on the JSoftware
site somewhere?
I realize that some of the stuff is out of date (which means it now has
historical significance, still making it valuable to have), but, if
nothing else, the more examples that can be made available to users
(especially relatively new ones, like myself) can only have positive
results for better understanding the language and how to use the
primitives more effectively.
Please consider doing this! Thanks!
Harvey
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