It's a primitive function. They are described in section 10.2.17 and
10.2.18 of the standard.

Regards,
Elias


On 3 June 2014 12:04, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:05:01PM EDT, Blake McBride wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Thanks.  That operator is not on my keyboard, and cutting-and-pasting
>> > it into GNU APL (unless I am making a mistake) doesn't accept it
>> > either.
>>
>> Per the output of ]keyb you would need to hit the quote key (left of
>> enter) on a US keyboard + whatever modifier you use to produce APL
>> symbold.
>>
>> > Am I missing something (like a better keyboard)?  Is that a standard
>> > (IBM defined) operator?
>>
>> Not sure if it's a primitive function or an operator. I see it briefly
>> mentioned as "left tack" p. 474 in Appendix A of the APL2 Language
>> Reference.
>>
>
>
> That manual lists those _characters_ but does not associate any operation
> to it.  I think it is not an IBM APL 2 operator.
>
>
>
>>
>> CJ
>>
>>
>

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