on 8/30/01 1:00 PM, Rodney wrote:

> I would like to see multidimensional arrays in Metacard.  Therefore:
> 
> put x into a1[a2[ele]]
> 
> should mean put x into element ele of sub-array a2 of array a1.
> 
> I would be interested in what others think about this.

put x into a1[a2[ele]] means to me that you want the contents of x put into
element eval(a2[ele]) of array a1[]

Besides, arrays *are* multidimensional.  For example:

put 1 into a[1,3,7] # three-dimensional array
put a[a[1,3,7],a[1,3,7]+2,a[1,3,7]+6]  returns 1

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