APL syntax and symbols

Known as: ⍀, ⍠, ⍁

The APL programming language is distinctive in being symbolic rather than lexical: its primitives are denoted by symbols, not words. These symbols…

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1987

A number of proposals have been made so far to extend the array concept of APL to functions thus allowing functions of non-zero…

1986

FAC, a functional array calculator language, features APL syntax and array operations but allows partitions, operators, and…

1984

Benkard explains the precedence rules of APL with a syntactic binding hierarchy [1,2]. This paper uses the hierarchy as a basis…

1983

An experimental full screen editor has been written in APL for IBM 3270 display terminals, based on the following principles…

1983

This paper presents a working model of APL syntax and semantics that incorporates explicit representations of functions…

1983

This paper tackles three areas of difficulty in APL. The first is the subjection to APL syntax of the work presently performed by…

1981

The article demonstrates how higher-level microprograms can be written in APL notation. With an architecture support package (ASP…

1981

This paper presents a set of structured control statements for APL and a preprocessor to implement them. The preprocessor…

1979

The left argument of the reshaping function in APL is an ordinal number or list of ordinals, called a shape, that measures the…

1978

Formal definitions of several functions and operators for manipulating nested arrays are presented. Three operators that control…