Re: [Bug-apl] Announce: APL function editor written in APL

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi,

the link to the ISO standard is a gzip'ed file despite of its .pdf 
extension.
I have updated README-7-more-info to explain how to fetch it.
The ISO standard seems to have a few more operators than IBM APL2.

/// Jürgen


On 06/03/2014 06:07 AM, Daniel H. Leidisch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Blake McBride <address@hidden>
> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Daniel H. Leidisch
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Left returns its left argument:
> > >
> > >        1 ⊣ 2
> > > 1
> > […]
> >
> > Thanks. That operator is not on my keyboard, and cutting-and-pasting
> > it into GNU APL (unless I am making a mistake) doesn't accept it
> > either.
> It works for me when typing in the Emacs mode (bound to s-'), and when
> pasting it into GNU APL running in a shell.
>
> > Am I missing something (like a better keyboard)? Is that a standard
> > (IBM defined) operator?
> It is described on page 167 of DIS 8485(1997), so I assume it is part of
> ISO APL. I cannot check in the standard document mentioned in GNU APL's
> info page, since that link never worked for me (I cannot open that file
> in my pdf viewer and could not find another version on the net). I do
> not know, whether it is implemented in IBM's product. Since I am neither
> very knowledgeable about nor interested in the standard or IBM's
> implementation, you should maybe check yourself, or wait for comments of
> other list members, if you want to be absolutely sure.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel