From: Charlie <charliepeck@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T21:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Substrings by Position.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2006/6/11, Charlie <charliepeck@yahoo.com>:
>> >
>> > What version are you on?
>>
>> 1.8.4
>>
>>   You have probably missed out something, its foo[-3,2] = "" not
>> foo[-3,2]
> 
> Right.  But with assignment I would find it even more irritating to
> have reversal - because the only thing that would make sense is to
> apply the reversal to the assigned string - and this is extremely
> unobvious.
> 
>>    I just thought that if the current behaviour is so useful, then it'll
>> be equally useful to have an equal and opposite behaviour. It's just
>> unnatural that things can only go one direction. Just a thought.
> 
> I don't subscribe to this general statement. Program code also flows
> only one direction and it would be more than unnatural to have it both
> ways.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> robert

Thanks for your comments. I think you all got the gist of the idea, so I 
needn't argue more. Personally, I think it has great potential for 
genome sequencing and genetic algorithm to name a few.


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