Interesting idea, Keith.
> Hi, I'm just wondering why this design choice was made:
>
> for pretty much any word that finds or picks, etc. a location
out of a
> series, for example:
>
> print find "here and now" "and"
>
> blk: [red 123 green 456 blue 789]
> print select blk 'red
> 123
>
> str: "REBOL"
> print pick str 2
> E
>
> (all examples from the dictionary) the series is the first
argument, and the
> index or the thing to find is the second argument. I'm just
wondering why
> this is, because it seems like this makes it more confusing to
string them
> together.
>
> For instance, with the way it is now, you would write something
like: "skip
> skip [a b c d e] 2 2", which to make clearer with parentheses
would be (skip
> (skip [a b c d e] 2) 2). How come it was chosen for it to be
this way rather
> than being able to do "skip 2 skip 2 [a b c d e]", if the
arguments were
> reversed?
>
> Just looking for some insight :) Thanks!
>
> Keith
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