Re: Bug-apl Digest, Vol 95, Issue 3

[Russtopia]

.. and I also forgot to mention the second modification in the provided diff corrects the variable 'R' to 'B' in help text for dyadic | (Modulo).

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 13:35, <bug-apl-request@gnu.org> wrote:

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   1. Typo in help text for monadic | (Magnitude) (Russtopia)


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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:34:45 -0700
From: Russtopia <rmagee@gmail.com>
To: bug-apl@gnu.org, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
        <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de>
Subject: Typo in help text for monadic | (Magnitude)
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See attached file (src/Help.def)
-2nd arg. to the help_def() macro for the ASCII help had the APL | rather
than ASCII |, so the monadic help text was not given for ]help |

Thanks,
-Russ

--
$ svn diff src/Help.def
Index: src/Help.def
===================================================================
--- src/Help.def (revision 1480)
+++ src/Help.def (working copy)
@@ -140,11 +140,11 @@
 help_def(2, "⌈", "Maximum",                   "The greater value of A or
B",                                                                     "")
 help_def(1, "⌊", "Floor",                     "Greatest integer less than
or equal to B",                                                        "")
 help_def(2, "⌊", "Minimum",                   "The smaller value of A or
B",                                                                     "")
-help_def(1, "∣", "Absolute value",            "Magnitude of B",
                                                                       "")
+help_def(1, "|", "Absolute value",            "Magnitude of B",
                                                                       "")
 // Note: ASCII | versus APL ∣
 help_def(1, "∣", "Absolute value",            "Magnitude of B",
                                                                       "")
-help_def(2, "∣", "Modulo",                    "R modulo A",
                                                                       "")
-help_def(2, "|", "Modulo",                    "R modulo A",
                                                                       "")
+help_def(2, "∣", "Modulo",                    "B modulo A",
                                                                       "")
+help_def(2, "|", "Modulo",                    "B modulo A",
                                                                       "")
 // Note: ASCII ~ is not APL ∼
 help_def(1, "∼", "Not",                       "Boolean inverse: Z[i] is 1
- B[i], all B[i] must be 0 or 1",                                      "")
 help_def(1, "~", "Not",                       "Boolean inverse: Z[i] is 1
- B[i], all B[i] must be 0 or 1",                                      "")
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