What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?
The Array Cast
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APL 360 - Reshape for Scalars
APL 360 also didn't have a rank operator. Yet it's become something that I think a lot of people would put on their list of criteria that they expect to see in an array language. If not a rank operator at least rank the concept of rank. The reshape should be fine. So all you really need is take the shape of the rank three array and use that to reshape the matrix because reshape is cyclic. And so if I have a replicate possibly. No, no, it didn't have replicated. It did have replicates. But it had compressed. Oh, yeah, right. Originally, it didn’t have a replicate but you don't
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