[Bug-apl] Multiline D-functions

2015-01-16 Thread Martin Dybdal
Hey I just started to use GNU APL. It seems that D-functions are not allowed in Dfns? I get a syntax error on something simple like foo ← { 42 } As far as I understand the concept of Dfns comes from Dyalog, and here they are allowed to span multiple lines. -- Martin Dybdal

Re: [Bug-apl] Multiline D-functions

2015-01-16 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Martin, correct. As chapter 2.11 of apl.info says: "GNU APL supports direct functions (aka. lambdas), but only in a rather limited form." One of several reasons for that is that the ISO standard describes the operation o

Re: [Bug-apl] Multiline D-functions

2015-01-16 Thread Martin Dybdal
On 16 January 2015 at 15:14, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Hi Martin, > > correct. As chapter 2.11 of apl.info says: > > "GNU APL supports direct functions (aka. lambdas), but only in a rather > limited form." > > One of several reasons for that is that the ISO standard describes the > operation of t