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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Treatment of illegal indices
To: eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd Eggink)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:33:47 +0000 (GMT)
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Bernd Eggink wrote:
>   x=(a b c d e)
>   x[4,1]=X
>   print $x
>
>Result:
>   a b c X b c d e

That's a deliberate feature.

-zefram