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From: | Juergen Sauermann |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-apl] About fractional notation |
Date: | Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:41:37 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 |
Hi Elias, that would break cut-and-paste from APL output back into APL. And the subtle difference between / and ⁄ could be difficult to notice for vision-impaired people like myself. Not to talk about small fonts with only a few pixels. I would also suggest that people do not use ⎕PS←1 N for normal program output, but only for debugging purposes. In my opinion the real value of fractions (if any) is the improved precision of internal computations and not in how the output looks like. And depending on some devices displaying ⁄ might not be a good practice either. For example, my email client (Thunderbird) displays ⁄ as 2 characters. Finally, there is a note regarding the equality of N and ⍎⍕N in the ISO standard (page 236, chapter 15.4.1 Monadic Format) which could not be satisfied with ⁄ . /// Jürgen On 08/16/2017 06:39 PM, Elias Mårtenson
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