On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. There are ways. I did something like that a few years ago. I extended > Ctrl-F1. If it didn't find a name in the help file then it would search for > the name in locales. Then issue and edit of the name in that locale. If it > appeared in multiple locales then presented a list of locales to choose > which instance I wanted to edit. Really fast compared to my editing speed, > but I wouldn't want to do this very often internally in an application. I > think that there would be a fair amount of overhead in this, particularly if > there are many locales with many names in each.
I do not think it's quite that bad. If the locale is implemented as a sorted list of names then it would be nearly optimal except if you were looking for a name which is a prefix of many other names. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
