That won't really work for arrays because the array index can be a variable
variable number of arguments (e.g., if multi-dimensional).
Rick
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Brandon Cherry <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Just a bit more food for thought, you might also like to consider doing
> this for collections as well. Returning a subset of an array for example.
> --
> Brandon Cherry
>
> On 9/18/2014 9:32 AM, Rick McGuire wrote:
> > Another idea I've been toying with for a while is adding a square
> > brackets method to the string class. This is a little bit like
> > substr(), but the default length is 1 rather than the rest of the
> > string. This would be fairly natural for scanning/parsing applications
> > where you are looking at single characters:
> >
> > if option[1] == 'a' then do ....
> >
> > A length can also be specified to extract additional characters.
> >
> > if option[1, 2] == '-a" then do....
> >
> > Unlike substr, this method will not do any padding.
> >
> > This will also be added to mutablebuffer, of course. It might also be
> > desirable to have a "[]=" method on mutablebuffer for editing-type
> > operations, although it's not clear if this should be an insert or an
> > overlay operation.
> >
> > Rick
>
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