James Heslip

Well, bookmarking that for future use.

"]Rows on -fold=3 will let you scroll horizontally and trim large outputs so that they don't flood your screen vertically."

@Adám Ah, thank you!

@rak1507 Yeah, that would probably work, but I guess I was being stubborn and trying to understand the set-up I had/lost.

@Adám I vaguely remember reading on a website (I think it was a tips page written by yourself for newbies?) something about ]rows, and being able to configure the session to not wrap your long output. I'm running on a new session and I've lost the behavior and it's super annoying. Any idea what resource I might be referencing?

@Adám I find that's probably my most common use. Used today, even.

≠⊆⊢ is always a nice one

@rak1507 Perfect, thank you.

@Adám That's neat- I didn't know that. Thanks! I'll be sure to share.

@rak1507 I didn't see anything to suggest that it would act this way in docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.documents.open

@Adám Essentially I was hoping that things would look relative to the current directory (F:\APL_Dvlp\Tasks\TestMSoffice). But Word is looking under my documents. Is this just a feature of the Word OLE?

This works fine: #.INI←⎕NEW #.IniFiles(,⊂'INIs/TestMSoffice.ini')

Afternoon all. Not sure if I'm missing something super simple here. I'm setting up a task to test out communications with the Microsoft Office OLE on Windows Server 2019 (been having some problems for a client). I run a WinFile.PolishCurrentDir (essentially setting the cd to that of the workspace). That allows me to read my INI file using a relative path, but when I go to work with a sample Word doc, it's looking in the wrong place (under my user folder).

@Adám Perfect, my thoughts too. Thanks.

Hi all. I'm working with an OLE instance of Word. Querying the methods using GetMethodInfo, it returns a vector of vectors for the parameters. I can see that there are three parameters on the Quit method, for example. If I run the method with a scalar argument from APL, does it scalar extend, or implement some sort of overloading to set the value for only one parameter? (They are optional from what I can tell in the docs).

@Adám I thought you were referring to the official FAQ.

@Adám Ah I missed that, no worries.

@Adám Dah, will have to find another clever one now... Was pretty proud of myself for spotting that, lol.

Original rules state 'In addition to the four digits 2 0 1 6, only primitive functions/operators, parentheses/braces, spaces, high minus signs and decimal points can be used. The resultant expressions must be deterministic (that is, give the same result on repeated evaluations).' Does this mean that solution is illegal?

@Adám were discussing it in Optima, and decided to recreate the problem for this year. (optima-systems.co.uk/programming-challenge-the-year-game) I had a solution for 29 using 2 0 2 1, but I wasn't sure the rules permitted: |20J21

@Adám were you involved with the dyalog.com/2016-year-game.htm?

^

@Adám Very true. Perhaps I will use Link for this project after all.

@Adám I thought you were going to propose foo←{2×⍵} :)

@Adám Should have spotted that earlier. Thanks!

First time using link, sorry if this is a silly question. Does it not support something like foo←2∘{⍺×⍵} ? It returns DOMAIN ERROR: Invalid text array *** Fix: Unable to write "foo" to file.

@jimfan I plan to write my next blog on using the interface from APL to Python for data visualization. I used Seaborn (seaborn.pydata.org) for a bit of experimentation in my previous blog (optima-systems.co.uk/…), though was all raw Python. This time, I am writing a toolkit to make Python's analytical utilities available to an APLer who is not super knowledgeable in the Python dept.

@Adám Done.

@Adám Are you still looking for volunteers for this? A couple of my team would be happy to offer a hand.

@Adám Thank you.

That said, could he get permission to talk in the chat? (user880661)

I was originally asking for a colleague, who is trying to do some automated testing.

@Adám Now I'm curious...

*If you are tasked with producing a set of the APL glyphs, of course.

@Adám I was asking more out of curiousity, it's not a necessity by any means. Just figured it must exist- feels like such a nice to have. *

@Adám Are you allowed to tell me? :)

I guess I'm just being lazy :P

Can copy Table 25 into a variable, and remove ⎕UCS 9 10 13 32. Yields +-×÷|⌈⌊*⍟○!?~∧∨⍲⍱<≤=>≥≠≡≢⍴,⍪⌽⊖⍉↑↓⊂⊆⊃∊⍷/⌿\⍀∩∪⍳⍸⌷⍋⍒⍎⍕⊥⊤⊣⊢⌹⍬→←.

But the help is a pretty good start, good thinking.

It seems like a really specific use case, so I can understand why it's probably not in the system.

@dzaima Ah, sorry, I'm referring to Dyalog APL

Is there an easy way to list all of the APL functions/operators? ⎕AV lists some (but not all) and is surrounded by alphanumerics and punctuation. Essentially the output I'm after is a vector of all of the glyphs on the language bar in any order (without having to type them out of course ;) )

@MortenKromberg Figured as much, but thought it was worth asking. It's fine- it didn't happen to me at least. A colleague was following the tutorial outlined in the Interface Guide (page 61), and fell victim to the ⎕OFF quit function in the temperature converter app.

Is there any way to recover work from a ⎕OFF? Someone just lost a lot of code...

@RGS I've not tried it with 18.0. I last used it when it was being developed (a long time ago...) It was worked on primarily by Gil Athoraya (github.com/OptimaSystems/vscode-apl-language-client) but I don't think it's being actively worked on.

So, weird question... I accidentally left Match Whole Word on when doing a RegEx workspace search (something along the lines of .*SRF). I was hoping to get results ending "SRF". The workspace just hangs in 16.0/17.0/17.1, but seems functional in 18.0 pre-release. What changed, was it just seriously optimized? And what is the expected behavior of combining these two? (I imagine a single word ending SRF?)

@Adám Now that's worth a star :)

@Adám Right? Just searching on Google is giving me nothing, though.