[E-Lang] Operators #4: Indexing!

[Bill Frantz]

At 7:39 PM -0700 4/6/01, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>The relevant parts of Python page
>http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/sequence-types.html would have us expand
>
>    thing[key]
>
>to
>
>    thing op__getitem(key)
>
>and expand
>
>    thing[key] := value
>
>to
>
>    thing op__setitem(key, value)

Does this mean I can build mutable collections for arrays (as opposed to
vectors) and then use the Fortran like notation to access them?  For
example:

array[5,7] := 1.47

and

foo := array[6,9]

I would expect these to expand to:

array op__setitem(1.47, [5,7])

and

array op__getitem([6,9])

Cheers - Bill


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