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Re: [Bug-apl] The Dyalog ⌸ operator


From: Louis de Forcrand
Subject: Re: [Bug-apl] The Dyalog ⌸ operator
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:01:56 +0200

Most operators which seem alien to APL2-like APLs are mostly taken from Sharp APL and J (key, rank, and even enclosing, although it and the power operator behave quite differently). Therefore you can find quite good info (except for the lack of the corresponding symbol) in the J dictionary:
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm

Louis

On 27 Apr 2016, at 06:41, Christian Robert <address@hidden> wrote:

where are you taking the definition of various functions like ?

power operator ?

dieresis jot ? like: (⊂⍤1) z,⍪z  (I really don't know what it is doing)

I see no references anywhere on the web. None in apl2 manual, none in Dyalog manual.

how can I learn thoses ...  without a manual and/or some examples ?


Xtian.



On 2016-04-26 23:02, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
I was reading about the Dyalog "key" operator ⌸. It's certainly a useful function, and something that should probably be added to GNU APL, in my opinion.

As always when thinking about useful additions to GNU APL, I wanted to try to do some things that ⌸ can do, without having access to it.

So, I wanted to simply take a string of characters, and create a list of each character and the number of occurrences of each character in that string. My solution works, but feels clumsy:

*       { ⊃{(↑⍵) (↑⍴⍵)}¨(⎕UCS v) ⊂ v←⍵[⍋⍵] } "abcfoobat"*
┏→━━━━┓
↓'a' 2┃
┃'b' 2┃
┃'c' 1┃
┃'f' 1┃
┃'o' 2┃
┃'t' 1┃
┗━━━━━┛

Can anyone improve this? In particular, can it be improved to the point of convincing me that ⌸ is not needed?

Regards,
Elias



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