Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM, James C Field<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Your problem ... indexing beyond array boundaries while producing
>> presumably undefined "fill" elements sounds much like my olde proposal.
>>     
>
> Er... I very much want defined values, and do not
> want undefined values.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   
What do you want the "fill" marker to be?
Blank fill for character or zero fill for integer? Real or imaginary? 
Perhaps a simple extension such as used in APL TAKE.

I believe that this might be is a missed opportunity... A can of worms 
or a new ABSENT data type.

Jim
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