by "jk" <*axy*@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Feb 2, 2008 at 01:33 PM
"aleph0" <apl68000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Feb 1, 8:34 pm, "Curtis A. Jones" <curtis_jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> What is {quadXT}?
>> Curtis (a curious APL2 user)
> = eXTernal Variable
>
> "filename" []XT "variablename"
>
> Allows you to store a variable "externally", i.e. as a file on a disk.
You may even store functions as external variables and call them back
during
runtime. It might have some disadvantages tho: it's always one step more
and
therefore more vulnerable and it costs some cpu-time, although it was
quite
fast in my remembrance.
Also Digital's VAX APL had []XT.
