[E-Lang] An Attempted Restatement of Hydro's Semantics

[Karp, Alan]

MarcS wrote:

  A middle element can be special if the list has been specially constructed
  to contain a specific number of elements at carefully specified positions,

This case is quite common in scientific computing.  I have some floating
point number or set of numbers that I convert to integers so I can pluck a
number from a table of one or more dimensions.  The tables are large, making
iteration impractical.  So, the index operation is not needed for iteration
as much as for computed indices.

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