On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote: > (Of course, you don't need an explicit definition for this; you could use > global named nouns. But local nouns are cleaner for ephemera.)
More specifically, you can bind the name of the noun to ". or do, and create a word that updates the name with new values. This can be useful for "almost constants", such as configuration parameters. dim=: ". bind 'configDimensions' setDim=:1 :'configDimensions=:m' -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm