Hi Elias,
I might have made sense if they had done it that way from the start.
But now it would create a backward-incompatibility with existing code
which I wanted to avoid. Also, the case where *A* is repeated but less than
determined by *B* can not be handled with scalar extension alone. That one
is quite common when dealing with bytes and hexadecimal encodings.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 12/14/25 18:11, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
Wouldn't it make sense to have regular encode simply do scalar
extension when the left argument is scalar? That's what I do in Kap,
and what several porter dialects use.
Den fre 5 dec. 2025 02:35Dr. Juergen Sauermann via Bugs and
suggestions for GNU APL <[email protected]> skrev:
Hi,
I have added a new function *Z←A⊤[X]B* to GNU APL. The classical
*Z←A⊤B
*is somewhat cumbersome to use due to its lack of scalar extension
for its
radix *A*. The new function tries to improve on that.
*SVN 1924*; see *info apl* or
https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/apl.html
for details.
Enjoy,
Jürgen
