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How to represent Jot (∘) in GNU APL Help.def


From: Russtopia
Subject: How to represent Jot (∘) in GNU APL Help.def
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:38:02 -0700

I noticed tonight that the jot (∘, Compose) operator is only indirectly mentioned in GNU APL ]HELP. Unlike most core APL symbols GNU APL doesn't output anything for ]HELP ∘

However, looking at the source code it appears that this pseudo-operator doesn't really fall into any of the classes supported by the definition file syntax. 'Jot' is really sort of weird and in a class of its own.

I had hoped to provide a trivial patch to resolve this, as I have done recently for the ]HELP text of some other operators but am unsure how to proceed. It seems inappropriate to introduce a new 'arity' argument to the macro used to generate entries ...

At the very least, would it make sense to redirect ]HELP ∘ to ]HELP . (perhaps even via code instead of whatever is auto-generated by the .def files) since it mentions a common usage of 'jot' there?


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