Re: a programming prob.

• Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:55:06 PST
• From:
  Kipp the Kidd <mcmudge@mailbox.syr.edu>
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>I was wondering if anyone here could help me out. say I had a property 
>that looked like this...
>
>OBJECT.PROP = {"foo", {"bar", {"hello", "there"}, 
>               "qwerty", {"quaz", {"poi", {"moo", "cows"}}}}};
>
>and I had a verb that would return the numbers...
>      {2, 4, 2, 2, 1}
>
>so OBJECT.PROP[2][4][2][2][1] would be "moo".
>How would I get another verb to find "moo" using those numbers without 
>always having to have the same amount of numbers?

The 1.7.9 verb would read:
return this:(verb)(args[1][(e=args[2])[1]],e[2..length(e)]);

Or, the easier 1.8.0:
return this:(verb)(args[1][(e=args[2])[1]],e[2..$]);

So, if you call it;
obj:verb({"foo", {"bar", {"hello", "there"}, "qwerty", {"quaz", {"poi",
{"moo", "cows"}}}}},{2, 4, 2, 2, 1})

It will return "moo"

- Kipp
PS. I didn't test this.  I went over it in my head... so if it doesn't work,
don't bug me :)

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