Re: [Bug-apl] )HELP for defined functions

2017-04-22 Thread Louis de Forcrand
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 > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have implemented Elias' earlier proposal for )HELP with def

[Bug-apl] sockaddr_in needs

2017-04-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I am complete newcomer to APL (thanks to Alex Weiner http://mastodon.social/@acw). I realized I could not build GNU APL on FreeBSD because of a missing header file which gets included automatically on Linux via . Here's the patch: Index: src/emacs_mode/TcpListener.cc ===

[Bug-apl] configure should not assume bash everywhere

2017-04-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
There is a little incompatibility with Bourne shell in the configure script. The whole thing should probably be changed, but for now this is a quick fix: Index: configure.ac === --- configure.ac(revision 928) +++ configure.ac

Re: [Bug-apl] wsid backups

2017-04-22 Thread enztec
throw in a water cooled system that was ALWAYS springing leaks forcing immediate shutdown (CDC cyber computer) and you DID )SAVE OFTEN On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:05:20 -0400 Peter Teeson wrote: > LOL! > In the early days of SHARP APL there was a message when you logged on to our > IBM Model 50 m

Re: [Bug-apl] update for the help.def

2017-04-22 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, I would second that (already done, though). For me working with (changed) files is much easier than working with patches, because I can simply override the changed file from my email client as opposed to saving the patch to disk, cd t

Re: [Bug-apl] update for the help.def

2017-04-22 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, this sentence is the verbatim copy of the phrase proposed in https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt  (chapter 17) and I do not feel like criticising the GNU project for their spelling. /// Jürgen On 04/22/2017 12:28 AM, enz...@gmx.c

Re: [Bug-apl] wsid backups

2017-04-22 Thread Peter Teeson
LOL! In the early days of SHARP APL there was a message when you logged on to our IBM Model 50 mainframe time sharing system. It was SAVE OFTEN!The interpreter was written in Assembly language and bugs would crash the system. The dreaded CLEAR WS was the result….By the time the code was conv

Re: [Bug-apl] update for the help.def

2017-04-22 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Alexey, thanks, included in SVN 928. BTW in GNU APL ⍬ is a niladic primitive function. /// Jürgen On 04/21/2017 11:01 PM, Alexey Veretennikov wrote: Hi, Sure here it is. Don't expect anything big in it - it is just

Re: [Bug-apl] wsid backups

2017-04-22 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Leslie, if I remember correctly then the filename for )SAVEd workspace is derived from the )WSID of the workspace and not from the name of the file from which the workspace was )LOADed at some point in time. So if you )LOAD mywsid.xml.

Re: [Bug-apl] why no difference between configure --help=short and --help=recursive

2017-04-22 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Peter, you are not doing anything wrong. The different --help variants in the configure script are generated by the autoconf tool itself. Whether they make a difference or not probably depends on how the macros provided by autoconf are

[Bug-apl] wsid backups

2017-04-22 Thread Fred Weigel
Don't )DROP the .bak files as well!! If that is done, the DROP cannot be undone! As it is, if the .bak is needed, special consideration is needed; this should not be considered a "normal" case. So, the existing behaviour is good. The important thing is consistency. Just my 2c FredW