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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:
> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> 
>> http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/cxref/
> 
> And while the xref were useful in the mainframe world,
> I've never needed xref on unix, because, well vi, grep
> etc are far superior to CANDE and printed listings with
> cross reference.
> 
> 

If you use the same variable name in different functions (in C terminology)
You have to do some work to identify the correct one. A good
cross-reference program will  understand the context.

-- 
Pete

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