IBM releases Workstation APL2 Version 2 Service Level 15

(Reposted from comp.lang.apl. See discussion there.)

The IBM APL Products and Services group is pleased to announce Service Level 15 for Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0. This new service level is available for all Workstation APL2 platforms including AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows.

Along with fixes for customer reported problems, Service Level 15 contains the following enhancements:

All platforms:

Fill functions are implemented for each and outer product.

Identity functions are implemented for reduce.

New external function LEXP provides lexical parsing using the APL2 syntax rules.

New external function FDELETE deletes an operating system file. On Windows, the file is sent to the Recycle Bin.

Windows:

General enhancements to the Session Manager environment include preservation of color and font information as data is copied to the clipboard and a single global custom colors array for all APL2 windows.

Additions to the Object Editor's Edit menu are Paste File, Redo, Comment and Decomment.

Extensive changes have been made to allow easier debugging of APL2 applications. Highlights of these changes include a new Debug menu in the Session Manager window, a Stack window and Watch windows for variables and expressions.

Unicode characters can be assigned to keys using the APL2 Keyboard Properties dialog.

New external function IDIOMSG provides a GUI interface to the APL2 Idioms Library.

Service Level 15 is available through the Support option at the APL2 home page to customers with a Software Maintenance contract.

Further information on the new facilities will be found in the updated APL2 User's Guide and on-line help after installing the service. A complete list of fixes included in this level will be found in the updated README (Unix systems) or "Service Information" (Windows systems) file.