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Subject: RE: Algol68
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Date: 25 Mar 91 22:34:48 GMT
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Mark Israel writes:
>   APL is full of gotchas.  Since "," catenates and "+/A" adds
>the elements of A, might you not reasonably expect ",/A" to
>catenate the elements of A?  No, sir.

But aren't all the elements of A already catenated?  8-)

(Incidentally, you're using a fairly old version of APL.  Or else a
sub-set.)

Raul