Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

2016-03-13 Thread Kacper Gutowski
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > it actually does create conflicts. > > In IBM APL2 and in GNU APL, the expression > > ⍺ (f g h) ⍵ > > gives a 3 item vector with the items being ⍺, (f g h), and ⍵. > In Dyalog APL it gives (quote): > > (⍺ f ⍵) g (⍺ h ⍵) ⍝ dyadic (fgh) for

[Bug-apl] svn version

2016-03-13 Thread enztec
Hi All a sudden my apl keyboard chars stopped working after a year or so .. and couldn't find the problem - so i decided to reinstall all from scratch Hence ... --- svn co http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk apl -> version 704 cd apl configure make --- g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..

Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

2016-03-13 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Hi, Ah I see if it conflicts when probably there is no way to introduce it. Thanks for digging into it! Juergen Sauermann writes: > Hi Alexey, > > it actually does create conflicts. > > In IBM APL2 and in GNU APL, the expression > > ⍺ (f g h) ⍵ > > gives a 3 item vector with the items being ⍺,

Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

2016-03-13 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Alexey, it actually does create conflicts. In IBM APL2 and in GNU APL, the _expression_ ⍺ (f g h) ⍵ gives a 3 item vector with the items being ⍺, (f g h), and ⍵. In Dyalog APL it gives (quote): (⍺ f ⍵) g (⍺

Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

2016-03-13 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Hi, At first I also thought like this, but since it is already part of J language and Dyalog APL, and it is not something alien but rather invented by Ken Iverson himself, I believe it could be a part of language if it does not produce conflicts. >From what I understood the general idea is to ha

Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

2016-03-13 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, after looking at the examples in the Dyalog  APL Programmer's Guide, I don't think that forks and trains are something that should be added to GNU APL. In my opinion, one of the strengths of APL is its syntactic simplicity,