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RE: Algol68

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From: cs450a03
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 22:34
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Mark Israel writes:
>   APL is full of gotchas.  Since "," catenates and "+/A" adds
>the elements of A, might you not reasonably expect ",/A" to
>catenate the elements of A?  No, sir.

But aren't all the elements of A already catenated?  8-)

(Incidentally, you're using a fairly old version of APL.  Or else a
sub-set.)

Raul
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