On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On May 4, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Laurent wrote: > > > As sad as I am to say this, "arr[x] = 3" is read quicker by the eye than > "(vector-set! my-integer-array the-current-iterator the-number-three)" > > I started saying this in 1988, when I requested from a Scheme implementor > that arrays should be treated as (finite) functions: > > (arr x) ~ (vector-ref arr x) > > I would very much like that (for all kinds of containers, and this would even help programs be container-independent). What was the reason for not including this in Racket? > > > An interesting idea would be to count the number of times each > identifier is used in the sources, and see how many characters would be > saved by using different conventions. > > That sounds like a fantastic exercise for someone who is truly skilled at > scripting the shell with all kinds of find/wc/add knowledge. > > Go for it. I would certainly if I had time right now... (though using `read' and a hash might be easier). That will need to wait if no one else feels like doing it. Laurent
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