#11576: make it possible to generate sequences of variables easily
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       Reporter:  kcrisman     |         Owner:  burcin  
           Type:  enhancement  |        Status:  new     
       Priority:  major        |     Milestone:  sage-5.6
      Component:  symbolics    |    Resolution:          
       Keywords:  Cernay2012   |   Work issues:          
Report Upstream:  N/A          |     Reviewers:          
        Authors:               |     Merged in:          
   Dependencies:               |      Stopgaps:          
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Comment (by kcrisman):

 Replying to [comment:16 mjo]:
 > Replying to [comment:15 kcrisman]:
 > > Is it `a_1_{2_3}` or `a_{123}`?   I guess I was thinking of subscripts
 of subscripts.  Maybe that's not at issue here; I can't quite reconstruct
 my thinking then either.  Wasn't there some nesting somewhere in your
 patch?
 >
 > It's `a_{1)_{2}_{3}`. To create `a_{123}`, you'd call `a[123]`. There is
 nesting going on, but each "level" should be separated by an underscore
 now. In fact now that we're only accepting the square brackets, I think
 commas should map directly to underscores. For example,
 >
 So how would you distinguish {{{a_(1,2_3)}}} from {{{a_(1_2,3)}}} - or is
 that not at issue?  That's what I was getting at, I think.

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