Re: [Bug-apl] Suggested change in rendering of ⎕CR

[Blake McBride]

Off the cuff, it seems like putting quotes around strings is a really good idea.  How else would you tell the difference between 123 and "123"?

Blake

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:

Given the following _expression_:

      8⎕CR 2 2⍴10 'foo' 20 'bar'

┌→───────┐

↓10 ┌→──┐│

│   │foo││

│   └───┘│

│20 ┌→──┐│

│   │bar││

│   └───┘│

└∊───────┘

The combination of strings and numbers in the array isn't very pretty.

I'd like to suggest that it renders as following instead:

┌→───────┐

↓   ┌→──┐│

│10 │foo││

│   └───┘│

│   ┌→──┐│

│20 │bar││

│   └───┘│

└∊───────┘

I would also like to see another ⎕CR mode that would render it like below, as this would make displaying arrays with lots of strings (in my case, database table content) much easier to read:

┌→───────┐

↓10 "foo"│

│20 "bar"│

└∊───────┘

Jürgen, what's your opinion on this?

Regards,
Elias