OpenEuphoria

Re: New slice operator

• Posted by Fernando Bauer <fmbauer at hot?ail.co?> Apr 26, 2008
• 700 views

c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> Fernando Bauer wrote:
> > A possible definition of the new operator '~' is:
> >    s[a~b] =: s[min(max(1,a),$+1) .. min($,b)]
> 
> You're really trying to aggravate those of us with US keyboards, aren't you?
> :D
After the invention of QWERTY keyboard, nothing more is so bad. 

> 
> How about the colon, instead?
> 
> x[1:4]
> 
> That's a little easier.

I proposed the 'tilde' just because it can represent the idea of range like the
character '-' and it's not used.
How do you distinguish a slice s[a:b] from a variable subscript with a namespace
s[a:b]?

Regards,
   Fernando