On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Christopher McIntosh
<[email protected]> wrote:
> a problem while I was going through the documentation.  I had picked up use of
> the 'names' verb from that library.  And because of a flaw in its 
> implementation
> (combined with my incorrect guess that it was a 'wrapper' around the foreign
> conjunction '4!:1')... so, I'm confused.  What is the technical definition, or
> goal, of that verb?

names lists, in a human readable format, names with definitions of the
class specified by its argument.

Arguments which are meaningful are from the set: 0 1 2 3
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dx004.htm

For example, these are the adverbs defined in the z locale:

   names_z_ 1
define  each    every   inv     inverse items
leaf    rows    table

-- 
Raul
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