Re: Improvements to gnuapl

[Chris Moller]

    What's wrong with good old-fashioned computed-goto
      like:
      
        1 testit y
        2 v←hello first second byebye
        3 →(y=⍳⍴v)/v
        4 hello: 'hello'
        5 →byebye
        6 first: 'first'
        7 →byebye
        8 second: 'second'
        9 byebye: 'byebye'  
      
      variations of which work fine as if/then/else, case statements,
      and while/until?
      
      (Or is that too old-fashioned? I wrote my first line of
      APL almost 50 years ago...)

On 2/20/21 1:59 PM, Christian Robert wrote:

> well I
>       saw the new thrends aka Quad-XML, Quad-JSON, Quad-FFT and so on
>       
>       
>       but I think thoses will never be used in real life or quite
>       seldom.
>       
>       
>       I really think that Juergen should be looking at
>       
>       
>       :if/:elseif/:else/:endif
>       
>       
>       :for var :in array
>       
>         loop
>       
>       :endfor
>       
>       
>       :while condition:
>       
>         loop
>       
>       :endwhile
>       
>       
>       :do
>       
>         loop
>       
>       :until condition
>       
>       
>       this will eases newcommers to the language.
>       
>       
>       I know that APL goal is to do a whole "program" in one or two
>       lines of code...
>       
>       but the language must accomodate newcommers.
>       
>       
>       I asked for that several years ago (may me 8 or 10 years)
>       
>       
>       Juergen ansewered at that time "this can be done" but I wont yet
>       
>       
>       well my principal next improvements wish list is
>       if/for/while/do_until
>       
>       
>       my real though,
>       
>       
>       Xtian.
>       
>       
>       
>

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