I didn't know this verb and have never used it before. However I guess, in the same spirit of decommting workspace in flavor of scripts, that searching names inside scripts is preferable to searching names inside loaded locales. For example use FIF to search 'deb' in global names should return the same (or more) definitions as that returing from whs.
That said, I rarely use FIF by now because I seldom use ide either. ymmv > To sniff over any new word I've discovered, I make heavy use of my > home-brewed: > whs=: (>@whichlocales) ; whichscript > > used like this: > whs'deb' > ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┬─┬─┬─┬────┬────┐ > │/Applications/j602/system/main/strings.ijs│z│z│j│jfiw│jijs│ > └──────────────────────────────────────────┴─┴─┴─┴────┴────┘ > > ...from which you see "deb" resides all over the place (in identical > copies, fortunately :) > > I find "whs" egregiously useful. Most of the bugs I encounter come > from what is [not] loaded, and where it is [from]. > > The verbs it needs: whichlocales, whichscript, along with: > listnameswithprefix (just as useful) can be copied from: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Phrases/Names . It happens they are > *not* part of stdlib. I think they should be. (@Ric; how about it?) -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
