Re: [Bug-apl] Possible improvement to ]BOXING

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Elias,

I believe it would be more confusing if ⎕CR is sometimes computed and sometimes not.

The example below might be easy to detect but what about cases like Z←8 ⎕CR xxx ◊ Z or
some ⎕CR returned by a function?

/// Jürgen


On 03/04/2014 05:35 AM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

I love ]BOXING and I'm using it all the time now. It's particularly useful when you're a beginner like myself.

Would it be possible to prevent the application of the default ]BOXING value when explicitly using ⎕CR? Consider this interaction?

      ]BOXING 8

      'foo' 'bar'

┌→──────────┐

│┌→──┐ ┌→──┐│

││foo│ │bar││

│└───┘ └───┘│

└∊──────────┘

      8⎕CR 'foo' 'bar'

┌→────────────┐

↓┌→──────────┐│

││┌→──┐ ┌→──┐││

│││foo│ │bar│││

││└───┘ └───┘││

│└∊──────────┘│

└─────────────┘

Oops... The last one applies 8⎕CR on output that has already been boxed. That can be a bit confusing.

Regards,

Elias