Re: select
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- Subject: Re: select
- From: Michael Roth <mroth@...>
- Date: 2004年8月20日 20:46:12 +0200
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Doug Rogers wrote:
| On Friday 20 August 2004 09:55, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
|
|>>skip(i, ...) --> slice(i, ...)
|>>first(...) --> slice(1, 1, ...)
|
|>How would you know whether the second "1" is a counter or the first
|>value from `...´?
|
| Couldn't the compiler/interpreter put the proper backend in for this?
|
| Maybe I'm missing something here. Are the dots above literals meant to
| represent what is currently called 'arg', or do you intend to be able
to use
| 'slice()' for things such as:
|
| > print(slice(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
| 3 4
|
| Either name slice() or select() works. But I like Michael Roth's
all-in-one
| version to handle first, last, etc.
Maybe the easist would be that the slice() needs always the start end
end position. Then you have to write -1 as the end:
select(i, ...) --> slice(i, i, ...)
skip(i, ...) --> slice(i, -1, ...)
first(...) --> slice(1, 1, ...)
first(i, ...) --> slice(1, i, ...)
tail(...) --> slice(2, -1, ...)
last(...) --> slice(-1, -1, ...)
last(i, ...) --> slice(-i, -1, ...)
and so on. In the case of index overflows an empty list should returned.
Michael Roth
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