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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL structure
Message-ID: <1517@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 09:42:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 09:42:52 1986
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <400@water.UUCP> ljdickey@water.UUCP writes:
>> >I disagree.  "if/then/else" would be very useful in APL. [Frank Adams]
>
>But APL already *has* the "if/then/else" in direct definition.  The
>beauty of direct definition is that if your off-the-shelf micro APL
>does not have it built in, you can easily implement it using Standard
>APL.

Could you explain what you mean by this?  What is "direct definition"?

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108