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array referencing

 [1/5] from: james::mustard::co::nz at: 2-Oct-2002 18:01


Can anyone shed some light on this behaviour: n: 4 bob: array/initial [8 8] 1 ; this works fine bob/:n/4: 2 ; this dies horribly bob/4/:n: 2 It seems to let a variable be part of an assignment as long as it is not the last entry in the path... Is this a bug or a design feature?? James.

 [2/5] from: tomc:darkwing:uoregon at: 2-Oct-2002 0:26


Hi James, short answer: yes bottom line: can't get&set with the same word see: this just came up again in the last week or so: look for the thread called "change/at" On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, James Marsden wrote:

 [3/5] from: al:bri:xtra at: 2-Oct-2002 20:05


James Marsden wrote:
> ; this dies horribly > bob/4/:n: 2 > > It seems to let a variable be part of an assignment as long as it is not
the last entry in the path...
> Is this a bug or a design feature??
It's a defect, I believe. I'm fairly sure it's on Rebol HQ's list of defects to fix. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/

 [4/5] from: james:mustard at: 2-Oct-2002 20:57


Thanks Tom, I seem to remember using POKE back when I first started using REBOL, haven't had to do any array work since then. I sat down and tried to think of a better way to handle the get/set paradox but the existing methods seem the only viable (non-complex) methods. Pointer notation *(....): would seem too cumbersome and non-rebolish and redirective assignment clashes with other rebol ways of doing things. In short, POKE is good. POKE is simple and best of all it works! :P James.

 [5/5] from: philb:upnaway at: 2-Oct-2002 17:31


Hi James, You could try creting the array with 1 extra dimension n: 4 bob: array/initial [8 8 1] 1 ; this works bob/4/:n/1: 2 Cheers Phil === Original Message === Thanks Tom, I seem to remember using POKE back when I first started using REBOL, haven't had to do any array work since then. I sat down and tried to think of a better way to handle the get/set paradox but the existing methods seem the only viable (non-complex) methods. Pointer notation *(....): would seem too cumbersome and non-rebolish and redirective assignment clashes with other rebol ways of doing things. In short, POKE is good. POKE is simple and best of all it works! :P James.