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[poll] all element reference

• Posted by Salix <salix at ?ree?ail.hu> Aug 21, 2007
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Hello,

I'd like to test an idea that could be useful in some cases.

Would it be a great amount of work to introduce * in the
sequence referencing? I would also appreciate "high level"
comments whether it breaks the logic of the language in 
any ways...

constant x={
	{"John",1},
	{"Mary",5},
	{"Andy",2},
	{"Suse",7},
	{"Jack",5}}

-- following line would print {1,5,2,7,5}
? x[*][2]

For me the major advantage would be in cases like this:

-- following line would return 4
? find(7,x[*][2])

-- currently the search should be handled like this
for i=1 to length(x) by 1 do
	if x[i][2]=7 then
		? i
		exit
	end if
end for

What do you think?

Yours,

Salix