June Kim asked:
> I think "Quote Quad" has a special meaning to APL community.
> What is it?
Quote-quad is the character ? . That is, a quad (?, a four-cornered glyph)
overstruck with a quote ('). It denoted user input
and output.
For example, ??'hello world' would print hello world to the user and
input?? would read a line of input from the user and
store it in input . You could even combine the two meanings with ??? and
echo the user's input back to him.
I'm guessing the title is a pun because the character denoted user input and
output, and the magazine accepted input (papers) and
gave it back (published the papers). Also maybe because the quad looks like a
little book or magazine and contains a quote
(text)?
-Dan
PS: If you can't see the Unicode characters in this message, Quote-Quad is
"Unicode Character 'APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUOTE QUAD'
(U+235E)", described here
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/235e/index.htm .
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