From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13398 invoked from network); 25 Feb 1998 14:25:31 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Feb 1998 14:25:31 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA05942; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:09:40 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:09:40 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199802251411.OAA28520@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Treatment of illegal indices To: eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd Eggink) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:11:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <34F42478.8174C710@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> from "Bernd Eggink" at Feb 25, 98 03:02:32 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Headers: in preparation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"z5Yck1.0.kS1.aO2zq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3792 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bernd Eggink wrote: >Andrew Main wrote: >> That's a deliberate feature. > >Huh? What's the sense in that?? No one has suggested anything better for it to do. This behaviour is consistent with the behaviour of foo[i,j]=bar for i<=j -- the new element is immediately preceded by the old $foo[i-1], and followed by the old $foo[j+1]. -zefram