Subject: Re: comments on array proposal
From: Paul Graham (pgraham@cadence.com)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 09:36:55 PDT
> I thought you didn't like redundancy in an LRM :-)
I don't like describing the same rule twice. Providing two ways to
do things isn't necessarily a bad idea.
> I'd rather have '$range', it would be more forward
> compatible if we decide to allow increments other
> than 1. Keep $left,$right & $increment for now and
> add ranges in 3.1?
How would $range be used? What is the syntax? Would it be a macro
to be used like:
$range(i, A, 1) {
}
or
for (i = $range(A, 1)) {
}
or what?
Paul
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