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Re: subscripts (Long Post)

• Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> May 16, 2000
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Hello Rob,

>Your idea could also be quite useful,
>but I want to keep things simple.

Actually I was thinking it would make things MORE simple.

a = sequence_of_unknown_length_or_structure
sb = sequence_to_subscript_one_value_from_a
if    length (sb) = 1 then
  return a [sb[1]]
elsif length (sb) = 2 then
  return a [sb[1]][sb[2]]
elsif length (sb) = 3 then
  return a [sb[1]][sb[2]][sb[3]]
elsif length (sb) = 4 then
  return a [sb[1]][sb[2]][sb[3]][sb[4]]
elsif length (sb) = 5 then
  return a[sb[1]][sb[2]][sb[3]][sb[4]][sb[5]]
elsif length (sb) = 6 then
  return a[sb[1]][sb[2]][sb[3]][sb[4]][sb[5]][sb[6]]
elsif length (sb) = 7 then
  return a[sb[1]][sb[2]][sb[3]][sb[4]][sb[5]][sb[6]][sb[7]]
end if -- Notice how it gets bigger all the time.

-- would become:

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, or were you talking about
simplicity of implementation rather than simplicity
of use? Even so, I thought you said it would be
easy to implement as well.

On Tue, 9 May 2000 20:06:23 -0400, you wrote:

>They are both fairly easy to implement, and won't
>break existing code...

Okay, I've demonstrated how it is simpler and You've
admitted that it could be useful and easy to implement.
I don't mean to be unduly insistent about it but I just
want to know what your remaining objection is.

later,
Lewis Townsend
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