---Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > --- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > > > --- "Philip A. Viton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Do we have a convention/utility for documenting and > displaying help > > > > for a verb (as opposed to a script, ie scriptdoc)? > > > > > > I don't believe there is one, but it should be easy to > > > extend scriptdoc to display help for just one name: > > > it already can locate a name (with Ctrl+F1 in FE). > > > > > > It makes sense to preserve the existing documenting > > > conventions (NB.* above name). > > > > > > For consistency with scriptdoc, it would be a verb > > > "namedoc" (akin to NAMEs and scriptDOC) with interface: > > > > > > I'd vote for calling the new verb "help" despite the fact > that it isn't consistent with > > scriptdoc. I think that would be more "discoverable". i.e. > > help 'assert' > > help 'boxopen' > > Sorry, "help" is already taken: > > help_j_'names' > help_j_'help' > help_j_'+'
help_j_ already copes with a couple of different cases. One option would be to extend it further to deal with help 'assert' etc as well? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
