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7:15 AM

@Marshall hmm, not sure how to fix this, I also kinda feel like replicate-operator and replicate-functions are distinct and should appear in a differences list

also working around this would require yet another change to how I encode the glyphs and I'm not sure I'm ready to do that for the third time in a week :)

@Richard i used a primitive that wasn't mentioned in the description and still got the "Your solution produced the requested result using the techniques described in the problem description" message, though idk if it's a bug or intentional

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RubenVerg

9:32 AM

another thing that's in the standard but not in APL2 is ⍪ (both monad and dyad)

⍨ also

⍤ too

there's quite a few differences

RubenVerg

9:56 AM

also monad ∪, I think that's all of them

sorry, ⊢ and ⊣ as well

RubenVerg

10:30 AM

added GNU APL to the big list (now there's over 300 meanings!)

RubenVerg

10:49 AM

should functions that only work on elements and functions that work on major cells (like ∪ in Dyalog vs Extended) be split?

I think probably not, it's another of those "too granular differences" thing

for GNU APL I didn't know how to deal with ⌹[], I put it as an overload of ⌹ but idk if it's the right thing to do or if there should be a separate ⌹[] entry, though I think it makes sense that it's in the same entry

lyxal

Just popped in to clean the starboard real quick

there was more star spam today and I only just thought to check here :p

RubenVerg

11:08 AM

(oh, forgot to mention that GNU APL comes with a couple of new ???'s)

Stack Exchange Feeds

12:01 PM

Q: Return a character string from a C function in a shared library (Dyalog APL)

I need to call a C function that returns a character string. The function is in a shared library (Linux) I have written this simple test function in C. wchar_t *retc(wchar_t *in) { FILE *fp = fopen("debug.log", "w"); //open a file for logging the result string static wchar_t string[128]...

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Marshall

1:33 PM

@RubenVerg Yeah, it's not really the same relationship as Replicate to Compress. I was thinking maybe it's better to mark that entry as "has an equivalent" instead of removing it.

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RubenVerg

2:51 PM

@Marshall I'm not sure how to add support for this without reworking the way the info is stored, and honestly I'm just too lazy to do that :)

but of course I take PRs! if you want to spend the time to port all the info to a new format

RubenVerg

3:03 PM

I'm not sure if it should be a property of the meanings or of the glyphs' meanings references

probably the latter?

Marshall

3:51 PM

Actually, if a user would want it to say "Dyalog has Replicate but it's an operator instead of a function", they'd also want "Dyalog has Mix but it's spelled ↑, not ⊃". So this is more about meanings and not really glyphs at all.

I think the thing to do is to split syntax off from meaning, so a line is a glyph plus syntax plus meaning. And then a meaning can have an "extends" attribute. But yeah, that's a fair amount of reorganization.

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