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From: byron@ghoti.netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
To: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re:  list operators
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 14:29:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9309151829.AA09696@ghoti.netapp.com> (raw)

>What I really do miss in rc is orthogonality in list operators.

>        There's a left shift "shift [n]", but no right shift.

Hm. I think you could make the same argument about lisp. There
is no way to shift right, other than by applying rev, cdr, rev.

What is wrong with defining a function in rc to do this for
you?


             reply	other threads:[~1993-09-16  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-09-15 18:29 Byron Rakitzis [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-09-17 17:32 Stefan Dalibor
1993-09-16 10:11 malte
1993-09-15 21:04 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-09-15 20:47 Brynjulv Hauksson
1993-09-15 19:38 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-09-15 20:08 ` Charles Hannum
1993-09-15 19:01 rsalz
1993-09-15 18:28 malte
1993-09-15 18:07 rsalz
1993-09-15 17:55 malte

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