Personally, I'm not a fan of having tools codify what's essential a
stylistic convention.
Looking at it another way: This is something I call the "principle of
least surprise... An experienced APL programmer shouldn't have to be
told that )FNS, )OPS and )VARS all have a hidden feature that must be
explicitly disabled to obtain the expected (and standard) behavior.
That said: This is something that's easy to do in APL without changing
the underlying platform. Here are a couple of functions that you could
use as a starting point:
∇z←⍙class ni ⍙set
⍝ Return a character array of every workspace name which includes
⍝ all characters in ⍙set. The empty set matches everything. The
⍝ optional ⍙class argument selects results by name class; the
⍝ default is 2 3 4 (variables, functions and operators).
⍎(0=⎕nc '⍙class')/'⍙class←2 3 4'
z←⊃{ (∧/⊃(⊂,⍙set)∊¨⍵)/⍵ }{ (∧\' '≠⍵)/⍵ }¨⊂[(1+⎕io)]⎕nl ⍙class
∇
∇z←⍙class ne ⍙set
⍝ Return a character array of every workspace name which excludes
⍝ any character in ⍙set. The empty set excludes nothing. The
⍝ optional ⍙class argument selects results by name class; the
⍝ default is 2 3 4 (variables, functions and operators).
⍎(0=⎕nc '⍙class')/'⍙class←2 3 4'
z←⊃{ (~∨/⊃(⊂,⍙set)∊¨⍵)/⍵ }{ (∧\' '≠⍵)/⍵ }¨⊂[(1+⎕io)]⎕nl ⍙class
∇
If you want to list all names not containing ⍙, do this:
ne '⍙'
To get just the variables:
2 ne '⍙'
Or just the functions:
3 ne '⍙'
Or just the operators:
4 ne '⍙'
The ni function is complementary.
Add a ]usercmd definition or three to customize this to your taste...
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 23:12 +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
How about having the )FNS, )OPS and )VARS commands filter out names
that contain a ⍙ symbol by default? Since the idea is that those are
internal names it would make sense to hide them (unless some other
flag is given).
Opinions?
Regards,
Elias