Re: APL letters

From: Frank da Cruz (fdc@columbia.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 12:36:04 EDT


John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:
> Frank da Cruz wrote:
> > The character set used by APL programming language includes special forms
> > of the uppercase Latin letters A-Z, usually italized and/or underlined.
>
> TUS3.0, pp. 302-03:
>
> # APL (A Programming Language) makes extensive use of functional symbols
> # constructed by composition with other, more primitive functional symbols.
>
OK, sorry, I should have added the qualification: "in an environment where
composition is not an option, e.g. in a Windows NT Console window using a
Unicode font, where composition is not allowed."

- Frank



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