NuVoc - J Wiki (original) (raw)

These are special articles written to comply with NuVoc standards, and tagged: Category:NuVoc.

They explain principles and practice in greater depth than appropriate on the primitives' pages themselves (all tagged: CategoryVoc), or which are relevant to more than one page.

These pages are linked from the primitive-pages themselves, at the point where they are relevant.

J Reference Sheets One Sheet J Reference pages for J602 and J90X
Vocabulary/AboutNuVoc About the Accessible Dictionary: how and why
Vocabulary/AccurateAccumulation +/!.0 y and x +/@:*"1!.0 y to avoid roundoff error
Vocabulary/AET "Absolutely essential J terms" to know for NuVoc
Vocabulary/Agreement How argument cells are matched for dyads (with tables)
Vocabulary/AmendingBoxedStructures Making replacements inside a boxed array
Vocabulary/ArrayProcessing How do you process an array? (an introduction)
Vocabulary/Assignment Private and public assignment explained
Vocabulary/Beginner's Q&A What a beginner needs to know, in brief
Vocabulary/Constants Number formation (an intro by examples)
Vocabulary/ControlStructures Control words used in J definitions
Vocabulary/CyclicGerund Cyclic gerunds explained
Vocabulary/Debug How to debug an explicit definition
Vocabulary/DirectDefinition Use {{ }} to write explicit definitions
Vocabulary/Dissect Pictorial view and analysis of a J sentence
Vocabulary/EZRank Rank in a hurry: "rank" concept rapidly explained
Vocabulary/EmptyArguments What happens when an argument to a verb has no atoms, or no cells (two different conditions!)
Vocabulary/ErrorMessages Error Messages (formal table plus explanations)
Vocabulary/Foreigns System Functions and Miscellaneous Features (m!:n)
Vocabulary/FramingFill Result collection and framing fill explained
Vocabulary/GerundsAndAtomicRepresentation Gerunds and Atomic Representation explained
Vocabulary/Glossary J terms (a comprehensive formal list)
Vocabulary/HowNuVoc <--START HERE-- How to use NuVoc
Vocabulary/IFamily The i.-family of verbs described
Vocabulary/Idioms Common Idioms used in J best practice
Vocabulary/Inverses Inverse and Obverse explained
Vocabulary/JBreak JBreak: forcing J to stop executing the current process
Vocabulary/LAPACK J interface to the LAPACK library
Vocabulary/Lint How to use lint: the builtin Program Flow Analyzer
Vocabulary/Libraries The J Libraries and what they do
Vocabulary/Locales Locales explained
Vocabulary/Loopless Loopless programming explained: repeating a function on cells, partitions, subarrays, etc.
Vocabulary/Modifiers Modifiers (adverbs and conjunctions) explained
Vocabulary/ModifierTrains Rules and examples for using modifier trains such as ([.*].)
Vocabulary/NounExplicitDefinition How to define a noun as an explicit entity using (:)
Vocabulary/Nouns All about Nouns
Vocabulary/NumericPrecisions Numeric Precisions in J
Vocabulary/ObjectOrientedProgramming Object-Oriented Programming in J
Vocabulary/Parsing How sentences are executed, step by step
Vocabulary/PartsOfSpeech The Parts of Speech: Noun, Verb, etc. Call by name and call by value.
Guides/Performance Monitor Profile execution to find slow spots
Vocabulary/ObsoleteSyntax No-longer-supported features of earlier version of J, seen in some of the older references.
Vocabulary/Printf How to use the printf addon
Vocabulary/RankFromV The rank of a verb created by an adverb or conjunction
Vocabulary/RankInfo Rank Information linked from CategoryVoc pages
Vocabulary/RankInfoIsImportant Why is the rank of a verb important to know?
Vocabulary/ReadingASentence A beginner's guide to reading sentences
Guides/Regular Expressions/Overview Regex in J
Vocabulary/ScreenOutputInput Screen output and input explained
Vocabulary/SpecialCombinations Special Combinations of primitives (with tables)
Vocabulary/TBlock Clarification of the T-block and the B-block in an if.-statement
Vocabulary/TestYourJ Test Your J (tells you if you've any need of NuVoc)
Vocabulary/Unreadability The alleged unreadability of J - and what to do about it
Vocabulary/UnicodeCodePoint The Unicode Code Point (UCP) explained
Vocabulary/Valence Verb valence explained
Vocabulary/Verbs All about Verbs
Vocabulary/VerbRank Verb rank, and how J extends small verbs to big arrays
JDic:vocabul VOC - the original "pro version" of this portal page
Vocabulary/Words All about J Words
Vocabulary/ZeeLocale "Factory words" - the z-locale and its contents