Re: [Bug-apl] Revisiting the APL 2 empty-array display behavior

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Jay,

as the GNU APL info manual says:

GNU APL supports direct functions (aka. lambdas), but only in a rather
limited form.

No plan to change this.

/// Jürgen


On 05/29/2014 04:44 PM, Jay Foad wrote:

On 29 May 2014 15:28, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:

The method for discarding a value Z seems to be 0 0⍴Z instead
of 0⍴Z these days. A smarter one could be monadic ⍪ ("table")
which turns an empty vector into an empty matrix (as does 0 0⍴).

In Dyalog APL you can also use an empty dfn, {}Z, but this doesn't currently work in GNU APL:

      {}Z

VALUE ERROR

      λ1 Z

      ^

Jay.