From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] bas(1) and bs(1) videos including features and use
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:17:30 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2101210915320.95135@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiX6aQ1cDOteK-An81NrMfVbJCQZ=5bOr2CUoTvQ_mKRTA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Nice archaeology. Blinded by my distaste for Basic , I never bothered to try
> bs--and should have. Dave has highlighted features that deserve respect.One
> telling example suggests this should be legalized in C:
> printf("%s\n", {"true", "false"}[1]);
That would evaluate to a constant being printed (it's a direct array
reference). Did you mean something like "...[i]" instead? That would
indeed be neat...
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-20 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 16:56 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-01-20 22:17 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-01-20 23:11 ` Hellwig Geisse
2021-01-21 7:30 ` Sudipto Mallick
2021-01-28 21:15 ` Dave Horsfall
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2021-01-20 14:05 Dave Plonka
2021-01-20 14:17 ` Andy Kosela
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