From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T23:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] array or with non-array


Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> writes:

> Sometimes wish that  [3, 5, 13] | [8]  can be written as [3, 5, 13] | 8
> that  ary |= 42  would be possible.
> 
> chris2 pointed out that it would be inconsistent with [1,2,3] + 4.
> maybe let + append 4 to the array?
> 
> 
> 
> ary = [1, 3, 4]
> #=>  [1, 3, 4]
> 
> ary |= 2
> #=>  [1, 2, 3, 4]

Why not [2, 1, 3, 4] or [1, 3, 2, 4] or [1, 3, 4, 2] here? Arrays have
an ordering; how do you specify where your new element goes?


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I tend to view "truly flexible" by another term: "Make everything
equally hard". -- DHH