gj@cornell.UUCP (Greg Johnson) (08/13/84)
Here is a description of the Ascii character set for APL\11.
I tried to mail this to the requestor, but had no luck.
So, I am submitting it over the net.
- Greg Johnson
gj@cornell
...!ihnp4!cornell!gj
The APL\11 ASCII Character Set
Note that the ASCII character set for APL uses both upper-case
and lower-case.
a-z letter
0-9 digit
` negative sign
'--' string
C <bs> J C comment
( )
[ ; ] indexing
L quad
L <bs> ' quote quad
dyadic monadic
------ -------
+ add plus
- sub negate
X mult sign
% div reciprical
| mod absolute value
D min floor
S max ceiling
* pwr exp
O <bs> * log ln (log base e)
O circle funct pi times
' <bs> . combinatorial factorial
! combinatorial factorial
^ and
V or
^ <bs> ~ nand
V <bs> ~ nor
< lt
> gt
$ le
& ge
= eq
# ne
~ not
? deal random number
R rho rho
I iota iota
E epsilon
N encode
B decode
\ <bs> O transpose transpose
, catenate ravel *
Y take
U drop
{ assign
} goto
B <bs> N i-beam i-beam
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L <bs> % matrix div matrix inverse
| <bs> H grade up *
G <bs> | grade down *
B <bs> J execute
N <bs> J format
/ compress *
/ <bs> - compress
\ expand *
\ <bs> - expand
O <bs> | rotate reverse *
O <bs> - rotate reverse
op / reduce *
op / <bs> - reduce
J.op outer product
op.op inner product
* may be subscripted with a scalar