Re: [Bug-apl] A modest proposal: user-defined commands

[David B. Lamkins]

Thank you, Jürgen! That'll do what I need.

FYI, I'm seeing a bit of cruft on the REMOVE:

      ]usercmd remove ]foo
    User-defined command \371\217\212\277\200

(Tested in both gnu-apl-mode [as above] and in a terminal. Only
difference is that the terminal shows unprintable `?' glyphs instead of
the escaped values.)


On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 17:07 +0200, Juergen Sauermann wrote:
> Hi David, Peter,
> 
> I have added a simple facility for adding user defined commands (the
> command being
> implemented in APL (possibly as native function)). I will no go as far
> as described in Dyalog's document below, however.
> 
> This could also be used for experimental commands or commands
> "missing" in GNU APL.
> 
> See ]HELP or 'info apl'. SVN 250.
> 
> /// Jürgen
> 
> 
> On 05/03/2014 08:08 PM, David B. Lamkins wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Juergen Sauermann wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > > 
> > > from what I hear Dyalog APL seems to be a good interpreter and I have no 
> > > problem with it.
> > > I am only a little more conservative when it comes to new and 
> > > non-standard APL features.
> > > But Peter Teeson had ideas going into a similar direction.
> > I hope I didn't give the impression that I was casting aspersions on
> > Dyalog. They've taken APL in some new and interesting directions. All I
> > meant is that many of Dyalog's contributions to the language tend to be
> > outside of the canon of ISO/IBM APL 2.
> > 
> > > One question that I have is how the implementation of a new command 
> > > would look like.
> > > Is it an APL function (which basically means that the command only 
> > > relieves the user
> > > from quoting the argument of the command) or would it be implemented in 
> > > or C++
> > > like native functions?
> > > 
> > As I envisioned it: the former. Just some syntactic sugaring around an
> > APL function.
> > 
> > > And do we know how often this feature in Dyalog was used in real life?
> > Its used to provide access to many of their development tools.
> > 
> > See http://docs.dyalog.com/13.2/User%20Commands.pdf .
> > 
> > 
> > 
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