On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Martin D Kealey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
>>> I'm in favour of retaining the $[ functionality, but lets give it some
>>> name like $*INDEX_BEGINNING or something like that, so that it's quite
>>> long for people to type :).
>>
>> Surely the interpretation of the index should be up to each array-type?
>>
>> role OffsetArray[::ElementType = Object;; int $MinIndex = 1]
>> {
>> is Array;
>> has ElementType @.contents;
>> method circumflex:? [ ] ? (int $index where { $_ >= $MinIndex } ) {
>> return @.contents[$index - $MinIndex];
>> }
>> }
>
> Good idea. That retains the functionality, but without us having to
> spec it :).
Oops, too late, by about 23 months. Please see S09.
Larry
