Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!umd5!hans From: hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: encode question Message-ID: <2923@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 16 Jul 88 00:27:40 GMT References: <6238@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu:: Reply-To: hans@umd5 (Hans Breitenlohner) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 28 In article <6238@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu:: amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit) writes: ::Do you know a trick (or an implementation) that will make :: :: 1 1 1 1 encode 2 :: ::return :: :: 0 0 1 1 ? :: ::Granted, the answer is ambiguous, as 0 1 0 1 etc. would qualify just as ::well, but nonethteless 0 0 1 1 is the "obvious" answer, derived from a ::unary representation. :: ::I's quite surprised to find out that all 4 of the implementations I have ::access to returned 0 0 0 0 . What gives? :: :: :: :: ::-- :: Neta Amit :: U of Minnesota CSci :: Arpanet: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu all four implementations you checked are conforming to the ISO standard for APL (actually I checked the fifth working draft standard, dated June 30, 1983). The behavior you expect would be in conflict with that standard.