⎕FMT

General APL language issues

⎕FMT

Postby paulmansour on Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:06 pm

⎕FMT is, in a word, venerable.

It is still, I think, indispensable, but it was designed in the days of character-based reporting, and in the age of HTML, perhaps it is time for a new version, ⎕FMTX or some such.

A couple of things off the top of my head:

1. The field width should not be required.
2. repetition (r) and alpha (A) are probably obsolete
2. Applied to a numeric scalar, the result is char vector, to a numeric vector a vector of char vectors, to a matrix a matrix of char vecs, etc.

It's not clear to me if the current specification should be used as starting point, or if it would be better to start from scratch.
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