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From: | Juergen Sauermann |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-apl] Formatting of large arrays |
Date: | Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:25:05 +0100 |
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Hi Elias, first of all, ⎕CR cannot possibly know what ⎕PW means. It produces an APL text matrix from an APL value. The rules for doing this were basically fixed by IBM through a workspace called DISPLAY which is shipped with the IBM interpreter. I found that workspace quite handy and wanted it to be a built-in function rather than a workspace that you need to )COPY before using it. But I would not like to make it too different from the original DISPLAY workspace for compatibility reasons. As you know, IBM compatibility rules for GNU APL. But the proposal for limiting ]BOXING sounds feasible. In order to not create incompatibilities with previous versions of GNU APL I would like to propose that we use negative ]BOXING numbers for not-boxing large arrays and positive ones for the current way of printing the output. I will look into this. /// Jürgen On 02/01/2017 10:16 AM, Elias Mårtenson
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