[e-lang] get/put for Slots

[Kevin Reid]

On Sep 1, 2006, at 12:26, David Hopwood wrote:

> Anyway, despite *also* having directly mutable arrays, E is in the  
> Algol68/ML
> family of languages in this respect, and changing the syntax for  
> slot access
> wouldn't change that.

Nitpicking: this is a change in protocol, not E language syntax,  
except in that if we use this protocol, the unary-star syntax becomes  
redundant.

(I'm assuming you aren't using a more general meaning of "syntax".)

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