Re: [Bug-apl] Outer product with replicate error

2016-05-16 Thread Peter Teeson
Hi Jürgen: If my memory is (still) correct it did give SYNTAX ERROR on Sharp APL. (I recall it because I was once tasked with doing some heuristics to speed up outer product.) Peter > On May 15, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Juergen Sauermann > wrote: > Hi, > > even though outer product dates back to the

Re: [Bug-apl] Outer product with replicate error

2016-05-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, even though outer product dates back to the early days of APL, if I remember correctly then you could only use it with scalar functions, not with mixed functions at that time. Therefore I believe that ∘./ would have given a SYNTAX ERROR eve

Re: [Bug-apl] Outer product with replicate error

2016-05-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, I changed GNU APL already yesterday, but I could not commit since the SVN repo was down (and still is). You can apply the patch below to make GNU APL behave like Dyalog. /// Jürgen --- Parser.cc   (rev

[Bug-apl] Fwd: Re: Parsing error?

2016-05-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi David, as far as I remember, I have removed the use of readline in GNU APL some time ago. There is also a very good document written by Peter Teeson in the doc directory that explains building GNU APL on MACs

Re: [Bug-apl] Outer product with replicate error

2016-05-16 Thread Hans-Peter Sorge
Am 15.05.2016 um 03:49 schrieb David B. Lamkins: > While `$ info apl` speaks to the issues around function/operator ambiguity, > it does not make any mention of the outer product case. > > I suspect that the failure of "outer product expand" is an oversight. This > case is disambiguated by notic