Re: [Bug-apl] Feature suggestion: multiple function arguments

[Christian Robert]

You can also use something like this

      ∇multi a;a1;a2;a3
[1] (a1 a2 a3)←a
[2] ⍕a1
[3] ⍕a2
[4] ⍕a3
[5] ∇
      multi 3 5 7
3
5
7

I think that implementing this "a la Dyalog" way is possible
but would not be trivial source changes.


Xtian.

On 2016-03-03 17:17, Alexey Veretennikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In GNU APL in order to supply several (>2) arguments to the function I
> have to write something like this:
>
> ∇multi a;a1;a2;a3
> a1←a[1]
> a2←a[2]
> a3←a[3]
> ⍕a1
> ⍕a2
> ⍕a3
>
> In Dyalog APL I can just write
> ∇multi(a1 a2 a3)
> ⍕a1
> ⍕a2
> ⍕a3
>
> The same syntax in GNU APL lead to an errer in function header. Can we
> have the same syntax as in the Dyalog APL since it looks like it will not break 
> any compatibility?