Implicit instead of the explicit copy command

Authors:
F. H. D. van Batenburg
Affiliations:
Inst. Theoretical Biology The Netherlands
Venue:
ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad
Year:
1985

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Abstract

If one prefers to include all required programs together in one workspace, the necessary programs could, as usual, be retrieved from other workspaces by the explicit copy command and stored together in the same workspace. However, there are a number of reasons why one would like to have some necessary programs or variables residing in their original workspace. Therefore a useful enhancement in order to use those objects in their original position would be the implicit copy where a qualified name is used in the header. This qualified name is the pure name preceded by its workspace library reference. The result should be the creation of a temporary local environment, followed by a copy of that object from the referred workspace.