From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-02-20T03:21:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11128] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name for indexes

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jean Michel wrote:
> >    Array#[<beginning index>, <number of elements>]
> >but that functionality is duplicated by:
> >    Array#[<beginning index>..<beginning index + number of elements - 1>]
> I must say that despite the fact that this would change incompatibly the
> language in a big way, I like very much this proposal. Much cleaner than
> current ruby semantics, in my opinion. But probably not feasible :(

Array#[[ ]] is a possibility. Like:

a=[2,3,5,7,11,13]

a[[1,5,4]] #=> [3,13,11]


(i am not for nor against this one. or rather, i'm both for and against
this one.)

matju