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From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:39

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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Most compilers I'm familiar with do; Iron Spring PL/I certainly does ;-) I
think gcc has a separate cross-reference program.  

-- 
Pete

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