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Re: explain it to me

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 29, 2001
• 507 views

that makes sense....thanks

...george
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: explain it to me


>
> A sequence can't hold an atom, which is what you are trying to do by
> assigning rec[2] to rec.
>
> If you make rec an object, then you can do what you propose.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:48 AM
> Subject: explain it to me
>
>
> > Could someone explain why I can't reassign a sequence like this
> >
> >    rec = "123.45"
> >
> >    rec = value(rec)
> >    rec = rec[2]            -- why can't I redefine rec this way if I
don't
> >                                             want the 1st element (or any
> > others but the 2nd). It's awfully
> >                                             inconvinent  to have to go
> > through a temp var
> >                                             everytime.
> >
> > And I would have thought that the following syntax would have also been
> > allowed
> >
> >     rec = value(rec)[2]        -- this is valid in Theos Basic and seems
> > logical to me here also. It saves going through a temp var also.
> >
> > ...george
> >
> >
>
>