Re: Nostalgia

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:42

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Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:44:57 -0700, Peter Flass
>> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> I used to do that but realized that it's a bad habit for a variety of
>>>> reasons.  (Working in insurance and using APL has a lot to do with it
>>>> I think).  First, single letter variable names are hard to search on.
>>> 
>>> Cross-reference is your friend.
>> 
>> Please provide a "cross reference" for APL.
>> 
>
>
>Ut should be possible to generate one. Most other languages have it
>built-in.
>

I haven't seen a compiler that generates a cross-reference since I
left the Medium systems OS group at Unisys.   Not at all common on
Unix and unix-like systems.

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