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Article #72Re: stropping?
From: Eric Golin
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1983 17:21
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1983 17:21
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APL's supplied by DEC (APLSF and VAX-11 APL) use "TTY mnemonics" which I found easy to remember. They are either derived from the function, as in .TR for transpose, or from the single-strike character, as in .RO (rho) for reshape (not .rh!) and .IO (iota) for index (not .it!). One advantage of this approach is that the three character mnemonic is interpreted as the single APL character, which allows it to be used inside quoted literals, etc. This is very useful in an environment where some but not all of your terminals support APL characters. eric golin
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!security!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!ejg From: ejg@brunix.UUCP (Eric Golin) Newsgroups: net.lang.apl Subject: Re: stropping? Message-ID: <5859@brunix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 12:21:05 EST Article-I.D.: brunix.5859 Posted: Wed Dec 7 12:21:05 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Dec-83 01:19:38 EST References: uiucdcs.4335 Lines: 11