Re: [Bug-apl] Proposal: Support alternative symbols for ⍺ and ⍵

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Elias,

thanks, fixed in *SVN 897*.

/// Jürgen


On 02/25/2017 05:09 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> Hello Jürgen,
>
> It seems as though this equivalence doesn't work. Here's a transcript. 
> The first attempt uses the alternate symbols, which gives an error 
> message. The standard symbols works fine:
>
> *      1 {α+ω} 2*
> VALUE ERROR
> λ1[1]  λ←α+ω
>            ^
> *      1 {⍺+⍵} 2*
> 3
>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
> On 24 February 2017 at 20:47, Juergen Sauermann 
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Elias,
>
>     these characters are already accepted as "alternate characters",
>     see *Avec.cc* lines *252* and *256*.
>     If they don't work then I need more details about the circumstances.
>
>     /// Jürgen
>
>
>     On 02/24/2017 08:39 AM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> >     GNU APL uses the symbols ⍺ (U+237A APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL ALPHA)
> >     and ⍵ (U+2375 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL OMEGA) for the left and right
> >     hand arguments in a lambda function.
> >
> >     I would like to suggest that it also accept α (U+03B1 GREEK SMALL
> >     LETTER ALPHA) and ω (U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA) as
> >     alternatives.
> >
> >     This will help when copy&pasting code that has been written with
> >     the non-standard symbols.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Elias