subscripts
Hello Everyone, and Robert especially,
Someone a while back suggested that there should be a built
in "subscript" datatype. A variable declared as a subscript
could be used as a subscript to a sequence. I don't think I
saw the necessity of it at the time but I just stumbled upon
a situation in which this would be highly useful and make a
lot of sense. One thing that I would change about this new
feature is that a regular sequence could be used as a
subscript so it wouldn't require a special data type.
Currently Euphoria errors out if you try this I think.
Here is an example of what I'm talking about:
object a, b, c
a = {{1, "Hello", 99}, 45, "World", {{9},8}, 432}
b = {1, 2, 1}
c = a [b] -- this would work like x[1][2][1]
puts (1, c) -- prints "H" from "Hello"
Anyone have any comments? Rob? This seems like an invaluable
tool to me. I think it would also be consistent with the
existing syntax, it wouldn't break anything and would allow
more flexability. If anyone is interested in why (specifically)
I want this, I'll be glad to post a more real-life example.
later,
Lewis Townsend
keroltarr at hotmail.com
geocities.com/keroltarr
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