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You may recognise the pattern here as [[wikipedia:augmented assignment]] from C and related programming languages. APL allows you to use any function to modify values in-place. If you are not familiar with this, then just think of <source lang=apl inline>name,←value</source> as <source lang=apl inline>name←name,value</source> (but the pass-though value is whatever is on the right of the assignment arrow). | You may recognise the pattern here as [[wikipedia:augmented assignment|augmented assignment]] from C and related programming languages. APL allows you to use any function to modify values in-place. If you are not familiar with this, then just think of <source lang=apl inline>name,←value</source> as <source lang=apl inline>name←name,value</source> (but the pass-though value is whatever is on the right of the assignment arrow). | ||
</source> | </source> | ||
== Doing something with what we made == | == Doing something with what we made == | ||
Now we we can put the SVG data into a native (OS) file: | Now we we can put the SVG data into a native (OS) file: | ||