From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bosworth@waterw.com (James L. Ryan) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286135267 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <344F0863.41C6@lmco.com> <3451AA9D.259C@dynamite.com.au> <62te54$p4l$1@latte.cafe.net> <3454CEB7.7D3A42B8@acm.org> <01bce3bb$5d33da00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> <34565F22.5B66C13E@acm.org> <34576752.11BAACA1@acm.org> <3458D7A4.A64A0D8F@acm.org> Organization: Taliesin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3458D7A4.A64A0D8F@acm.org>, Robert Bernecky wrote: [snip] > Ability to read a text matrix containing one or more escape characters, > whencolumns were supposed to line up. Your scheme (adding blank columns) > could make a function display REALLY wide. The key here is that > [snip] Bob, I'm a bit confused. The column widening used in Burroughs APL/700 to accomodate keywords had nothing to do with function display unless the matrix being displayed contained, say, the canonical representation of a function. As for the direct display of functions, APL/700, as did all APLs at the time, reformatted the functions into a canonical form in which redundant blanks were removed. This removal held whether keywords were enabled or not. As a now somewhat humorous aside, APL/700, when displaying a function, removed all redundant parentheses. To some this was blasphemy and to others this was a desirable feature. (This removal was a byproduct of the line image being reconstructed from the prefix Polish representation to which all source lines were converted to immediately prior to initial execution--the redundant parentheses would appear in a function image for those lines not yet executed.) Jim -- James L. Ryan -- bosworth@waterw.com