Re: A Question of Notation

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:20:06AM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> 
> But consider the slice notation that was discussed recently.  The
> problem is that ls[{1,4,6]}] says 'index by array' to me (this is a
> common idiom in array-oriented languages). 

I'm convinced now that table-valued indices are useful to many people.
However, there is still __call available, which, as Luiz pointed out
in the slice thread on 2010-12-15, allows the syntax ls{1,4,6}.

Dirk

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