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Understanding selective assignment
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Source International Conference on APL archive
Conference proceedings on APL as a tool of thought table of contents
New York City, New York, United States
Pages: 62 - 67  
Year of Publication: 1989
ISBN:0-89791-327-2
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Authors
J. A. Brown  IBM Santa Teresa Lab J88/B25, 555 Bailey Ave., P.O. Box 49023, San Jose, Calif.
B. Hawks  IBM Santa Teresa Lab M46/B24, 555 Bailey Ave., P.O. Box 49023, San Jose, Calif.
Sponsor
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 discuses the rules for evaluating expressions on the left of an assignment arrow and shows that ordinary assignment and vector assignment are just special cases of selective assignment. This unification of the three kinds of assignment expressions represents consistent and proper extensions that could be added to any future APL 2 implementations.


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Kenneth E. Iverson, A dictionary of APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.18 n.1, p.5-40, September 1, 1987  [doi>10.1145/36983.36984]
 
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Skutt, Cory, "APL Reference Arrays, Structure Functions, and Specification Functions," IBM Research Report RC14584.

CITED BY
J. Philip Benkard, Nonce functions, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.20 n.4, p.27-39, July 1990

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: APL

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.3 Language Constructs and Features
          Subjects: Data types and structures

  E. Data
  E.1 DATA STRUCTURES
      Subjects: Arrays


General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages

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J. A. Brown: colleagues
B. Hawks: colleagues
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