On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Juerd wrote: > John Williams skribis 2004-09-03 23:06 (-0600): > > > (A and Z) > > I think I'd prefer alpha and omega. > > Why not use Cyrillic or Korean or the secret code alphabet we used in > school?
I meant the actual words "alpha" and "omega", because they're like A and Z but with some extra religious connotation of first and last. st (nd, rd) as a cardinal postfix operator sounds good. To keep 1st+$n a Cardinal, we could define multi operator:+ (Cardinal $a, Int $b) is commutative {...} Is nth a magic function that returns the cardinal size of the dimension it is in? ~ John Williams