I'm sure it's the right thing to do, but I'll miss this feature.
My favourite example of integer-as-sequence elegance is '100 random', I
always thought that was pretty neat
-Phil
Doug Coleman wrote:
> We're in the process of removing integers-as-sequences since they're
> useless and they end up causing lots of bugs. However, some code in
> the compiler uses arrays and integers interchangeably, and it's not
> straightforward for me to remove as it would be for Slava (who wrote
> this code). I think it's finally pretty high on his todo list though.
>
> You can see that integers are still sequences by using the 'see' word
> or this:
>
> ( scratchpad - auto ) immutable-sequence members .
> {
> POSTPONE: f
> integer
> iota
> repetition
> quotation
> curry
> bits
> range
> }
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Chris Double wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Nicholas Spies <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> All this is well and good, but since this use of 5 instead of a
>>> sequence
>>> doesn't seem to be documented, should this use be avoided, or
>>> celebrated
>>> as an undocumented feature :-) ?
>> Numbers implement the sequence protocol. This is why it works. I'm not
>> sure where this is documented.
>>
>> Chris.
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