[Jprogramming] indirect assignment

[Roger Hui]

The behaviour is not documented but you can probably depend on it.

It is not document but it is not unreasonable.  (<'a')=. <'cat'  and
('a')=. <'cat'  should give the same result since the names can
be specified as a character list or a boxed list.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill lam" <bill_lam at myrealbox.com>
To: <programming at jsoftware.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: [Jprogramming] indirect assignment

   ('a';'b')=. 'cat';'dog'
   a
cat
NB. as expected

   ('a')=. <'cat'
   a
+---+
|cat|
+---+
NB. reasonable

   (<'a')=. <'cat'
   a
+---+
|cat|
+---+
NB. seems unreasonable, often trapped by it.

   (,<'a')=. <'cat'
   a
cat
NB. this is what I want.  

Is the last case documented?  Can I rely on it?