A proposal for control structures in APL

Authors:
Denis P. Samson
Affiliations:
ACCES Informatique, Inc., 379, rue des Franciscains, Québec, Canada G1S 2P9
Venue:
APL '84 Proceedings of the international conference on APL
Year:
1984

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Abstract

An extension to APL is presented that introduces the “sequence” operator, allowing “case” and “while” blocks to be used as general control structures. These fully exploit APL's array-oriented expressivity and allow greater clarity in APL programming.