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From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: 'Locatives' in J
Message-ID: <1992Mar30.134911.12261@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Organization: Iverson Software Inc.
References: <92087.153511HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 13:49:11 GMT

In article <92087.153511HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET> HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Konrad Hinsen) writes:
>Has anyone grasped what 'locatives' (names containing an underbar)
>in J are good for? They are mentioned in chapter 18 of "An Introduction
>to J", but as far as I could find nowhere else in the J documentation.
>From the example given I got the impression that this might be a useful
>thing, but since the example doesn't work with J 4.1 I am not so sure
>about that.

Locatives are Not Yet Available.  We endeavour to keep the implementation
and various forms of documentation consistent, but such discrepancies
manage to creep in from time to time.  

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