Re: Documentation of the BOXING values.

[Peter Teeson]

Hi Jürgen:

Thanks so much for your patient help.

Being so out of date with modern APL I am completely “gob-smacked” (as the Brits used to say).

Did not realize how much ⎕CR has been extended from the 1984 IBM APL 2 Language Reference Manual.

Ditto for the 2000 ISO Standard.

The elegance and beauty of the pure language, as extended, still remains.

But to me the proliferation of ⎕ functions, useful as they may be, seem somewhat overwhelming.

Do we really need all of them I wonder? Or are they just “it would be nice to have” things”?

Oh well… I’m just a grumpy old man I guess….

respect….

Peter

On Jan 8, 2021, at 5:30 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote:

Hi Peter,

the allowed boxing values are those in ⎕CR. Those can be displayed with

⎕CR ⍬

I have started to document all GNU APL functions and commands (some years ago),
but haven't made much progress lately.

Best Regards,
Jürgen

On 1/8/21 3:13 AM, Peter Teeson wrote:

]HELP shows an item ]BOXING 2 3 4 7 8 9

I ‘ve looked for documentation for these values but failed to find any.
And experimentation has also failed me.

Please direct me to it.

Thanks…

Peter