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From: Bob Eager
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:26

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:42:03 +0000, Scott Lurndal 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.

It wouldn't be. The UNIX philosophy is that that is the function of a 
separate tool.

 http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/cxref/


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