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Re: Comments on GNU APL
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Jay Foad |
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Re: Comments on GNU APL |
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Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:06:21 +0000 |
> Alternatively, APL2 could be extended to allow the use of data as
> operands for operators, as in J. Then the operator operands could be used
> as third and fourth arguments. That would allow #FIO and other such
> functions to be implemented in much the same way as the foreign conjunction
> in J.
APL2 already allows that. From the reference manual: "Operators take
functions or arrays as operands and produce functions (derived
functions) as a result."
Jay.