* shift
@ 1993-09-22 17:21 Paul Haahr
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From: Paul Haahr @ 1993-09-22 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
biased as i might be, i'd like to point out the existence of es's
solution to the shift question:
+ no shift builtin
+ ... accepted in subscript arguments, where
$x(m ... n) means all elements of x between the mth
mth and nth (inclusive). if m is omitted, 1 is assumed.
if n is a omitted, $#x is assumed.
anyway, that's it. while
* = $*(2 ...)
is not as clean as
shift
the flexibility is, imho, worth it.
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@ 1993-09-22 18:05 Tom Culliton x2278
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From: Tom Culliton x2278 @ 1993-09-22 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: haahr, rc
> + ... accepted in subscript arguments, where
> $x(m ... n) means all elements of x between the mth
> mth and nth (inclusive). if m is omitted, 1 is assumed.
> if n is a omitted, $#x is assumed.
Beautiful! A really neat idea, but kind of a big change at this stage
in the game, especially if we remove shift too.
Tom
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