I think a sentence analyzer which allows for stepping through a sentence like debug steps through lines of code would do the job. Henry's approach only pausing and showing intermediate results as each token is processed in a sentence. If the token happens to be defined then allow stepping into it just as the debugger now can step into explicit definitions.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I certainly agree with you about the nature of the problem, when writing J. > > It's just that we also need to solve the implementation issues > (hopefully without making a horrible mess of things) if we want to > solve this. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why do I want to put something like (3 : 0)"0 to start the definition? In > > many cases it makes the definition clearer. And avoids having to repeat > the > > "0 in every use to avoid the definition failing if it only works for rank > > 0. Also, sometimes I want to get some information before the enclosing > > local names are hidden. > > > > The problem I ran into when wanting to include rank or some other tacit > > processing on the data before entering the explicit definition is that > the > > debugger then treats the entire explicit part as one line. To avoid this > I > > have to define the verb without the "0 for testing, then add it > afterward. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
