Re: [Bug-apl] Request to add to the ⎕fio[] a 'function_common_name' as argument

2017-01-04 Thread Christian Robert
You miss my point completely. I don't want to have to )LOAD or )COPY a workspace to use *built-in* native function. Xtian. On 2017-01-04 02:52, Elias Mårtenson wrote: Well, FILE_IO.apl is also part of GNU APL. Regards, Elias On 4 January 2017 at 15:51, Christian Robert mailto:christian.rob.

Re: [Bug-apl] Request to add to the ⎕fio[] a 'function_common_name' as argument

2017-01-04 Thread Elias Mårtenson
I have to admit that I don't really see FILE_IO.apl to be any less "built-in" than ⎕FIO, just because it's written in APL rather than C++. Regards, Elias On 4 January 2017 at 16:03, Christian Robert wrote: > You miss my point completely. > > I don't want to have to )LOAD or )COPY a workspace to

Re: [Bug-apl] Request to add to the ⎕fio[] a 'function_common_name' as argument

2017-01-04 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Xtian, thank you very much for your proposal. I am not too fond of the idea though. Not because of the coding effort on my side, but because of other considerations. Consider the following syntactical variants of the same thing, and my personal ju