Re: Types, arrays, generality, and notation (was: Fortran90 and Arrays)

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From: Michael Rys
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:39

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In article <STEPHEN.92Apr16042133@estragon.uchicago.edu>, stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) writes:

|> Hell no, it was an argument to a function and you get to choose it.
|> It's the APL guys who have trouble with this one. (Iverson once worked
|> out the solution to this, which is to give functions _attributes_ like
|> "identity" and "inverse", but I don't think it was ever implemented. I
|> thought it was cute, myself).

It was implemented in a language called AIDA (an APL descendant).
For more information see the language posting or contact

mgf@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com

Cheers
Michael Rys

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