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International Conference on APL archive
Proceedings of the international conference on APL table of contents

Sydney, Australia

Pages: 39 - 43

Year of Publication: 1987

ISBN:0-89791-253-5

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R. Bernecky

APL Language Design Group, Ontario, Canada

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SIGAPL: ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper gives a simple introduction to the concepts of Function Rank and the Rank Operator as they are defined in SHARP APL, and presents examples of their use. It shows the benefits, both in language design and in practice, of these concepts. Comparisons are made with other APL implementations, which do not use these concepts.

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