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Re: Proposal to change the ranges in array trimming to be "half-open" in
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Dan Čermák |
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Re: Proposal to change the ranges in array trimming to be "half-open" interval |
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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:55:40 +0100 |
"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org> writes:
>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:03:07PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
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>>> That said, Egeyar's suggestion is definitely intriguing. It is was to
>>> be supported at some point, however, I would use a very different
>>> syntax.
>>>
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>> I was reading the wikipedia entry for Icon programming lanuage [1], and I
>> came
>> across this example:
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>> ```icon
>> "Wikipedia"[1] ==> "W"
>> "Wikipedia"[3] ==> "k"
>> "Wikipedia"[0] ==> "a"
>> "Wikipedia"[1:3] ==> "Wi"
>> "Wikipedia"[-2:0] ==> "ia"
>> "Wikipedia"[2+:3] ==> "iki"
>> ```
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>> The `[2+:3]` caught my eye! That's exactly what Egeyar wants.
>> WDYT?
>
> That is a nice syntax! :)
Indeed, I like it!
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