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RE: On indexes

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Aug 23, 2002
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Derek:
Maybe I was the one requesting this feature....
But if I remember well, what I asked was that:
x[{1, 5, 3}] was {x[1], x[5], x[3]}.
I think the two approaches are worth considering, with different notations.
The second one is addressed to in one of the functions in my genfunc
package.
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: On indexes


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: christian.cuvier at education.gouv.fr
> To: EUforum
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 9:15 PM
> Subject: On indexes
>
> >I am not asking for a t[index]=setval syntax to be available
> >- too much specialized-.
> >
> >Hav a good week-end.
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>
> However, it has been requested by at least one person that sequences
support
> indexes that are also sequences. For example:
>
>    a = t[{3,5,2}]
>
> would be equivalent to ...
>
>    a = t[3][5][2]
>
> The advantage would be that it makes handling arbitary depth sequences
with
> generic code more easier. Currently, we have to specify in the code, the
> same number of [] as there are depths. If we could code a single [] that
> takes a sequence as its index value, we could then control the depth
> references just by altering the number of elements in the index sequence.
>
> It makes writing generic code in libraries much easier.
>
> ----------------
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
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