Large arrays and files

  • Authors:
  • Roland Pesch

  • Affiliations:
  • APL Development Group, I. P. Sharp Associates, Suite 201, 220 California Ave., Palo Alto, California, USA

  • Venue:
  • APL '82 Proceedings of the international conference on APL
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Current APL file systems force explicit iteration on each filed item and are difficult to use. A file system in which files are addressed as APL variables is described. It is made up of four components, each useful in its own right. Two have already been implemented: enclosed arrays and the shared variable processor. Two are proposed in the paper: storage outside the workspace of large enclosed values, and a simple auxiliary processor to store by name, and later initialize, values of variables shared with it.