Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey)
Subject: APL transliteration schemes
Message-ID: <1991Sep30.205442.29854@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 20:54:42 GMT
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Hello.

I am interested in making a catalog of known transliteration schemes
for APL symbols.  My question is this:

	Can you tell me, please, of any scheme that
	preplaces the traditional APL symbols by some
	other sequence of characters.

I don't need to know the whole transliteration scheme; all I want
for now is just the name of the APL system, or a pointer to an 
article that describes the system.

Thanks in advance.

If you are not sure just what I am talking about, consider this little
example.  It comes from Honeyapple, an APL that runs on Honeywell Bull
equipment running the GCOS operating system.

     a"is "tps 2 3"r "i 6
     a
 1  4
 2  5
 3  6

This transliteration scheme uses strings that begin with
a double quote and end with a blank.  By this rule, the line
     a"is "tps 2 3"r "i 6
has no un-necessary blanks.  The implementer of this APL
has used

	"is	for	left arrow	(assignment)
	"tps	for	circle slash	(transpose)
	"r	for	rho		(reshape)
	"i	for	iota		(index generator)

If you know of any other schemes, I would like to know about them.
I am starting a little catalog.

Lee Dickey

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