Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-23 Thread Elias Mårtenson
First of all, I'm a newcomer to APL and even though I've hit 40 I feel somewhat like the new kid on the block. :-) I haven't advocated plenty of new quad-commands or changes to the core language (although there are certainly a few of those that I'd like to see too, but I respect Jürgens wishes

Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-23 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, I really appreciate the discussions on this because I believe there is a open issue (libraries and how to provision them). 1. First of all I would like to share my current point of view regarding ⎕-functions and -variables. The (only ?) good thing about them is that they are ready to be

Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-23 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Blake, I believe your 1, 2, 3 below is exactly the current priorities of GNU APL and 3. is already present. We use shared libraries for extending APL so you don't need an extra developer lib for that. The only thing needed is a header file declaring the functions available in GNU APL

Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-23 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi , don't wait any longer for ⎕host. Its already there - called popen() in FILE_IO. see man popen how to use it. /// Jürgen On 04/23/2014 03:33 PM, enz...@gmx.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:14:21 -0400 Peter Teeson peter.tee...@icloud.com wrote: Blake said: This means creating a

Re: [Bug-apl] clang Warning

2014-04-23 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, I see. I have changed the test in configure so that it checks whether the compiler is g++ rather than whether it accepts -rdynamic. SVN 221. That should also avoid the same warning in Solaris. /// Jürgen On 04/22/2014 07:01 PM, Peter Teeson wrote: Hi Jürgen: Gandalf:~ pteeson$ man gcc No