OpenEuphoria

RE: Eu's poor design

• Posted by Andreas Rumpf <pfropfen at gmx.net> Aug 17, 2003
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jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:47:01PM +0000, Andreas Rumpf wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:55:50PM +0000, Andreas Rumpf wrote:
> > > > I am tired of argumenting about this. 
> > > 
> > > Ok.
> > > 
> > > > Still nobody showed me how to do
> > > > seq[1][2][3] = some_func(seq[1][2][3])
> > > > easier in Eu.
> > > 
> > > x = some_func(x)
> > Yes, but you left out some assignments:
> > x = seq[1][2][3]
> > x = some_func(x)
> > seq[1][2][3] = x
> > -- This isn't easier. 
> 
> Ok, tell me this.
> 
> Why do you have the 'seq[1][2][3]' in the first place? Why not just use
> x throughout?
Because often you need sequences in sequences! And seq[1][2] is the way 
to address the inner sequence.