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Re: Next Lua (5.2) feature request : slicing

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Would you be okay in making this via token filters?
For the cases you point out, it could:
	mat[exp1,exp2] --> getmetatable(mat).__index(exp1,exp2)
For a function returning multiple values, it could not, but we can rule that out, right?
-asko
On 24.11.2006, at 21.51, Shannon Stewman wrote:
A straightforward extension to indexing that allowed a library to implement mat[i,j] by allowing multiple arguments to __index and __newindex. This would eliminate proxy objects (of the sort mat[i] [j] requires) and not require painful manual addressing (the highly annoying mat[j*NCOL+i]).
Slicing can easily be done with the existing syntax:
mat1[ slice(1,3) ] = mat2[ slice(4,6) ]
which extends nicely to 2+ dimensional arrays:
mat1[ slice(1,3) , slice(1,3) ] = mat2[ slice(4,6), slice(5,7) ]

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