I am confused by your problem report. It seems to involve comments about the JHS vs Jqt editors as well as about name resolution.
If I define the following in a script and in JHS run it and use test it works as expected. *** 1.ijs test=:3 : 0 shell 'dir' ) *** Perhaps you can simplify and clarify your problem report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm