Re: [Bug-apl] alias for built-in functions

[Christian Robert]

Working fine here

Xtian.


      D←{24 ⎕cr ⍵}
      D ⍳4
┌4──────┐
│1 2 3 4│
└───────┘
      t←(3 4 ⍴ 12?100) (4 5 ⍴⍳20)
      D t
┌2──────────────────────────────┐
│┌4───────────┐ ┌5─────────────┐│
│377 85  51 69│ 4 1  2  3  4  5││
││ 8 42  46 41│ │ 6  7  8  9 10││
││93 67 100 52│ │11 12 13 14 15││
│└────────────┘ │16 17 18 19 20││
│               └──────────────┘│
└∊──────────────────────────────┘
      D t+1
┌2──────────────────────────────┐
│┌4───────────┐ ┌5─────────────┐│
│378 86  52 70│ 4 2  3  4  5  6││
││ 9 43  47 42│ │ 7  8  9 10 11││
││94 68 101 53│ │12 13 14 15 16││
│└────────────┘ │17 18 19 20 21││
│               └──────────────┘│
└∊──────────────────────────────┘
      D ← {8 ⎕cr ⍵}
      D t
┌→──────────────────────────────┐
│┌→───────────┐ ┌→─────────────┐│
│↓77 85  51 69│ ↓ 1  2  3  4  5││
││ 8 42  46 41│ │ 6  7  8  9 10││
││93 67 100 52│ │11 12 13 14 15││
│└────────────┘ │16 17 18 19 20││
│               └──────────────┘│
└∊──────────────────────────────┘



On 2015-09-04 14:16, Alexey Veretennikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to make an alias for the display function, like in Dyalog APL DISPLAY, 
> but by some reason can't.
> I want to function DISPLAY behave as 8⎕CR:
>
> DISPLAY←{8⎕CR ⍵}
>
> produces an error:
> DEFN ERROR
>        λ1
>        ^
>
> The
>        DISPLAY←8⎕CR
> also doesn't work:
>
> SYNTAX ERROR
>        DISPLAY←8 ⎕CR
>        ^         ^
>
> As a newbee, I would like some tips on what I'm doing wrong :)
>
> Br,
> /Alexey