From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T05:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: arbitrary indexes

Jason Nordwick wrote:
> In my original message, I asked for people not to answer
> "change the behavior of [] yourself"

Right, and then you said started complaining that the default behavior
should be what you want instead of what it is:

"Overall, arbitrary indexing seems far more useful than range based
indexing using the [start,len] notation. After all, there is already
start../...stop notation. Too bad I guess."

And that you just couldn't be as productive otherwise:

"We started using Ruby for some moderately heavy numerics, and I
haven't been able to be as concise (or productive) as I wish (or
thought from what others told me)."

In fact you said that it was a "problem domain".

So I thought you had changed your mind about overridding the default
behavior. It instead seems that you were just asking for the
impossible: to change the default behavior without changing the default
behavior. So I guess the criticism wasn't very substantive after all.

Regards,
Jordan