On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:54:26PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Could we get a single-character symbol that could be used in an array
: index to refer to its shape in a dwimmy way? Something like:
:
: @x[*.head]
: @x[*.tail] # equivalent to @x[*]
: @A[*.head+2, *.tail-1]
:
: (where head and tail are methods of the shape that return the current
: dimension's start and end points.)
This mornings up date proposed
@x[*+0]
@x[*-1]
@A[*+2, *-1]
for that. But maybe you meant @x[*+2 .. *-1]? And @x[*] would be
@x[*+0..^*-0]
written out that way. Or possibly
@x[-* ..^ +*]
depending on how we define the unaries.
[BTW, I'm suddenly wondering now if spam filters are weeding out
the synopsis updates for certain people...I've noticed that when I
respond to a thread by doing a synopsis update it tends not to end
up in the summaries, for instance. Maybe gmail thinks they're spam
because of too much self-similarity?]
Larry
