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Builtin sequence operations?

• Posted by Cuvier Christian <christian.cuvier at insee.fr> Dec 07, 2005
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Question for RC mainly:

Nowadays, the fastest way to insert an element inside a sequence appears to
be:

target_sequence &= 0      --add dummy element at the end to get some more
storage space
target_sequence[insertion_point+1..$] =
target_sequence[insertion_point..$-1] -- shift sequence tail 1 position
right
target_sequence[insertion_point] = new_value     -- now set the right spot

and similarly to remove an element.
Wouldn't it be desirable to increase code effiiciency as well as to spare
coders' fingers, to have a builtin
insert(target_sequence,insertion_point,new_value) and
remove(target_sequence,removal_point) ?

If sequences are implemented as linked lists, this should be far more
efficient than the current best method, right?

CChris