Re: A peeve.

• Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 23:30:41 PST
• From:
  Andrew Wendt <powerpig@m-net.arbornet.org>
• cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Brack wrote:
> there is a way to do it, it's just kind of silly/non-intuitive/whatever.
> try blah[2..2]=""

It's not actually silly. If you think of a string in light of how the list
operators work, it makes sense.

{0,1,2}[2..2]={}
makes
{0,2}

{0,1,2}[2]={}
makes
{0,{},2}

In the second example you are replacing one element with another. In a string
each character is an element, so it doesn't make sense.

TTFN
Andy

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