[Jprogramming] loopless programming question

[Matthew Brand]

On 2 February 2010 20:37, Matthew Brand <mtthwbrnd at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The explicits if. etc... are incredibly useful fall backs for beginners
> (and others?) when you just can't figure out how to do something the other
> way. If they were not available I think I would have given up on J when I
> was first trying to get things done using it - because a beginner can spend
> all day fiddling around trying to get rid of "domain error" etc... but can
> instantly get rid of errors most of the time by resorting to more
> traditional methods. I.e. explicits are an "if all else fails due to my lack
> of J competence" tool for me to turn to [as well as asking on the forum
> :-)].
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> u`v at . always throws me because of the ranks, I can't think of an example
> right now, but I know that I have spent ages fiddling around with it at
> times and then given up and used if. instead. As a rule, if I can't get
> those things to work after 1 cup of tea then I will just use explicit.
>
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> On 2 February 2010 17:13, David Ward Lambert <b49P23TIvg at stny.rr.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't understand why j has a select/case statement.
>> Gerunds ought to be sufficient.
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