1. Re: subscripts (Long Post)
Lewis Townsend writes:
> Rob Craig writes:
>> Your idea could also be quite useful,
>> but I want to keep things simple.
> a = sequence_of_unknown_length_or_structure
> sb = sequence_to_subscript_one_value_from_a
> return a [sb]
> -- note that this would work for 8+ levels with no more code
> This seems simpler to me, ...
It's very easy to come up with language features that
make particular, specialized situations very "simple"
for the programmer. i.e. he can code a particular thing
with far fewer statements. That's not what I meant
by "simple". I meant, I want to keep the language
definition simple.
Anyway, there are at least two other ways of defining
subscripting of a sequence with a sequence that I think might
be useful to more people in more instances.
I described one of them last time, another would
go something like:
s = {100, 200, 300, 400, 500}
? s[{5, 1, 3, 3}]
{500, 100, 300, 300}
I'm still not impressed enough to move ahead with any
of these 3 approaches.
I'd rather have a language that's based on a small number of
simple, powerful features, that everyone understands,
than a language with a thick, dense, manual describing
hundreds of slick, but unnecessary features for dealing with
specialized situations.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
