Hello Jürgen,
It seems as though this equivalence doesn't work. Here's a transcript. The
first attempt uses the alternate symbols, which gives an error message. The
standard symbols works fine:
* 1 {α+ω} 2*
VALUE ERROR
λ1[1] λ←α+ω
^
* 1 {⍺+⍵} 2*
3
Regards,
Elias
On 24 February 2017 at 20:47, Juergen Sauermann <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Elias,
>
> these characters are already accepted as "alternate characters", see
> *Avec.cc* lines *252* and *256*.
> If they don't work then I need more details about the circumstances.
>
> /// Jürgen
>
>
> On 02/24/2017 08:39 AM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
>
> GNU APL uses the symbols ⍺ (U+237A APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL ALPHA) and ⍵
> (U+2375 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL OMEGA) for the left and right hand arguments
> in a lambda function.
>
> I would like to suggest that it also accept α (U+03B1 GREEK SMALL LETTER
> ALPHA) and ω (U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA) as alternatives.
>
> This will help when copy&pasting code that has been written with the
> non-standard symbols.
>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
>
>
