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From: dkristol@pollock.artists (David Kristola)
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ad
Date: 1999/04/29
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Date: 1999-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
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In article hjh3@ftp.kvaerner.com, "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> () writes:
>
>Robert Dewar wrote :
>>
>>In other words:
>>
>>  a(5)
>>
>>is a reference to a mapping, and you want the range value
>>given the domain value 5. Whether this is implemented by
>>an array or a function is an implementation detail that
>>should not affect the syntactic form of reference.
>
>
>What would a(5) := 4; mean then? You cannot assign to a function as far as I
>know. Which in my opinion voids the function opposition to the common
>convention of using square brackets for array indices.
>
>I don't mind if the function addicts still writes a(5) := 4, if I can write
>a[5] := 4.
>
>Greetings,
>
>
>

a(5).some_value := 4;

Maybe the function a returns a pointer to a record structure...

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