Re: select

[Michael Roth <mroth@...>]

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Michael Roth wrote:

| What about a more general solution:
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| select(i,..)    -->    slice(i, i, ...)
| skip(i, ...)    -->    slice(i, ...)
| first(...)    -->    slice(1, 1, ...)
| first(i, ...)    -->    slice(1, i, ...)
| tail(...)    -->    slice(2, ...)
| last(...)    -->    slice(-1, ...)
| last(i, ...)    -->    slice(-i, ...)

Maybe, 'first' should be really called 'head'.

A usage of these might be...

	function call(...)
	  return head(...)(tail(...))
	end

;-)


Michael Roth
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