I have made two posts on this subject, neither has been reflected to me from the forum. Does anyone else have a similar problem with their posts?
Brian asked about Oleg's suggestions. I wanted a general purpose adverb so omitted them on the grounds that they were designed for nouns of the same type. His other suggestion of using enshape also has effects I do not want since the shape of nouns may convey important information about a state.(I currently have an problem where array size is changing all the time.)
You can approach object oriented programming various ways. The plot package is an example where there are a number of globals carefully hidden from the user. However for many problems having a boxed object with several components and a set of functions which extract and use particular components provides a means of very tidy functionally oriented J code. It may not be the fastest code in execution, but with todays machine speed for a host of problems it is economical in my time and the computational time milliseconds. For problems where computational efficiency is essential then one may want to exploit suggestions such as Oleg made.
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