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Re: Bracket heresies. What about subscripting?
- To: "merry::satchell"@hermes.dra.hmg.gb
- Subject: Re: Bracket heresies. What about subscripting?
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
- Date: 17 Jul 1999 21:32:44 -0500
- Cc: guile@cygnus.com
- References: <009DA729.CF19B8FE.2@hermes.dra.hmg.gb>
> (vector-ref v n) is a very clumsy way of getting element n in a vector v;
> I am still enough of C/Pascal/Basic person at heart to have to stop myself
> from saying v[n].
Now that is *really* a heresy.
If this were a nice lambda-calculus kind of world, you could say (v n).