Hi Peter,
the allowed boxing values are those in ⎕CR. Those can be
displayed with
⎕CR ⍬
I have started to document all GNU APL functions and commands
(some years ago),
but haven't made much progress lately.
Best Regard
Hi Brian,
thanks, fixed in SVN 1403.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 1/7/21 8:13 PM, Mr. Brian B.
McGuinness wrote:
I was trying examples of APL code from the book "APL2 At a
Glance" in order t
Hi Jürgen:
Thanks so much for your patient help.
Being so out of date with modern APL I am completely “gob-smacked” (as the
Brits used to say).
Did not realize how much ⎕CR has been extended from the 1984 IBM APL 2 Language
Reference Manual.
Ditto for the 2000 ISO Standard.
The elegance and be
Hi Peter,
yes, ⎕CR and ⎕FIO are entirely "nice to have" things that I felt could
be useful. ⎕CR is a pandora box of conversion functions while ⎕FIO
contains a collection of operating system functions.
I have tried to limit the number of functions in ⎕CR and ⎕FIO to
only those that are really tri
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:19 PM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <
mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote:
> [...]
> My current exercise is, by the way, ⎕XML which will become an
> interface to XML files.
> [...]
While XML was the name of the game a number of years ago, I'd like to see a
JSON interface!
--blake
Hi Jürgen:
> On Jan 8, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
> wrote:
>
> I'm a retired programmer and I still like to program as a hobby.
Ditto and Amen. This ]BOXING thing came up because I asked my colleagues if
there was a more
elegant APL way.
"Trying to get the neurons firing when w
Hi,
just my opinion...
The list of programming languages I used to use is looong.
When APL got deployed at IBM, all employees were supposed to learn APL -
for a supposedly more efficient work environment.
Few were able to efficiently use it.
Production Control code -> I modified it ~400 lin
