Some questions on Slate syntax

[Brian Rice]

On Apr 2, 2005, at 2:37 PM, David Hopwood wrote:
> Anyway, isn't this discussion a bit redundant as long as Slate's 
> indexing
> semantics is not going to be changed? I sincerely hope it isn't going 
> to
> be changed.

No offense is intended to anyone's ideas, but this is definitely 
redundant. There are much more important issues at stake in a language 
design than the index base. And, as stated, for the most part, no one 
should be coding with explicit dependence on the index base unless they 
are extending the base Sequence methods. Even then, they could be made 
abstract over the index base by using indexFirst and indexLast 
messages; this might be worthwhile once we get an inlining optimizing 
compiler online.

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Brian T. Rice
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