[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the whole point of your approach in this email series
> ;-) is that you are trying to be able to formulate that in
>
> a: "1234"
> b: next a
> c: next b
>
> a, b and c reference the same series at different positions. You would like
> to invent a terminology that puts in focus the fact that the positions are
> different while the data storage is identical, by providing a term that
> says "same data storage, different position". For this you choose the term
> "series".
>
I neither invented nor chose the term "series". I read it in the
dictionary, tutorials, and 'help. They all use it quite frequently.
However, I have observed that the concepts of "data collection" and
"data collection at a specific position" are not the same.
Concept My informal Ingo's recent
to be usage in this email suggested
identified: REBOL docs: thread series: these terms:
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data collection (none that I sequence series
could find)
data collection series series index
at a specified
position
>
> 1. The term is ill chosen. ... You invite confusion,
> when you introduce the word series as a term that means something else.
>
The key properties described of a series (in the REBOL docs) are
an ordered collection of data values, along with a current position.
That is the sense in which I have tried to use the term; any value
which may be considered a series (for purposes of argument vetting
or whatever) MUST involve BOTH an ordered collection of data AND a
position into that collection.
-jn-
