Moving code between APL versions

[paulmansour]

What is the current state of the art of moving code between Dyalog versions?

Say I want to take a namespace full of functions in a V17 workspace and load them up in, say V11 or V13? (Lets assume as far back as the existence of namespaces and dfns.)

I assume the code must be written out as text and read back in and fixed.

There is ]In and ]Out (didn't have much luck here, put I did not pursue too hard), there is SALT and Snap, is that they way to go?

Or is there some other simple utility or technique I am overlooking?

[Morten|Dyalog]

]in and ]out should be the way to go, although to be honest they have mostly been tested for moving code to Dyalog from APL systems with an )OUT system command. Perhaps you have some sort of native Dyalog construct that defeats them. If you are able to send me your workspace, I can take a look at it.

I often get away with:

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'file' ⎕FCREATE 1
(⎕CR¨⎕NL -3 4) ⎕FAPPEND¨ 1
⎕FUNTIE 1
⍝ and then on the other system
'file' ⎕FTIE 1
⎕FX¨⎕FREAD¨1,¨⍳--/2↑⎕FSIZE 1
⎕FUNTIE 1

[paulmansour]

Morten thanks.

That actually does the trick for V17 back to V14.0 at least. (I didn't go back further). I had assumed the component file would have undergone a lot of incompatible changes since then. Nice that works.