Re: Slicing ideas

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Louis Mamakos <louie@transsys.com> wrote:
>
> Is the mechanism thought to be limited to exactly 3 arguments to the
> metamethod?  Could it be generalized to 2 or more "subscripts"?

Another reason this is a good question is that the current metamethod
implementation is tuned for overloading operators with a limited number of
arguments. It's not a horrible problem because the compiler knows
statically (from the syntax) when a multi-argument index is happening so
it could be compiled to splice-specific byte code.

Tony.
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