Hi, Great work Jürgen, Alexey, and all others involved.
May I suggest adding the type of data to its help info? (ie: numeric, literal, mixed) Thanks a lot, Louis > On 20 Apr 2017, at 18:22, Juergen Sauermann <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have implemented Elias' earlier proposal for )HELP with defined functions > (actually all kinds > of user defined names). > > If there is a name, say NAME, in your workspace, then > > ]HELP NAME > > should provide some information about NAME, eg: > > NAME←3 3⍴0 > )HELP NAME > symbol NAME is a variable: > Rank: 2 > Shape: 3 3 > Depth: 1 > > If NAME is a function, then code extraction comments are shown: > > ∇NAME B > [1] ⍝⍝ code extraction comment (always shown) > [2] ⍝ normal comment (not shown unless in toronto mode) > [3] 1 2 3 ⍝ APL code ends toronto mode > [4] ⍝. toronto code extraction comment > [5] ⍝ normal comment (shown because in toronto mode) > [6] 1 2 3 > [7] ∇ > > )HELP NAME > symbol NAME is a monadic defined function: > Header: NAME B > ⍝⍝ code extraction comment (always shown) > ⍝. toronto code extraction comment > ⍝ normal comment (shown because in toronto mode) > > Finally, )HELP is subject to tab expansion; tab with ]HELP only shows the APL > primitives and, > either the first character of all names (if there are many) or all names (if > there are not too many). > > Tab with )HELP XXX shows all names starting with XXX. > > I hope this implements everything that was discussed earlier. SVN 926. > > /// Jürgen >
