Enhancement Request - Adding /skip refinement to 'find and 'select
[1/4] from: al:bri:xtra at: 19-Sep-2000 21:52
'sort has the /skip refinement:
>> help sort
...
REFINEMENTS:
/skip -- Treat the series as records of fixed size.
size -- Size of each record. (Type: integer)
It would be very good if 'find and 'select had the same refinement. Then
things like associative memory stores become significantly easier to write.
Andrew Martin
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[2/4] from: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 19-Sep-2000 8:50
I was about to recommend the same thing. It would definately simply many
scripts I have wrote.
--Ryan
[Al--Bri--xtra--co--nz] wrote:
> 'sort has the /skip refinement:
> >> help sort
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[3/4] from: joel:neely:fedex at: 19-Sep-2000 16:01
I know this isn't a democracy... ;-) but if it were, I'd
enthusiastically
second Andrew's proposed enhancement!
-jn-
[Al--Bri--xtra--co--nz] wrote:
[4/4] from: brian::hawley::bigfoot::com at: 19-Sep-2000 22:20
Andrew Martin wrote:
>'sort has the /skip refinement:
> >> help sort
<<quoted lines omitted: 4>>
>It would be very good if 'find and 'select had the same refinement. Then
>things like associative memory stores become significantly easier to write.
Tell Feedback that you want this! I sent this request to
Feedback on July 7, but I think they up the priority of
enhancement requests if more people submit them.
This feature would render most of the associative data
structure conversation moot. We would still need for the
hash! type to hash more than any-string! values. At least
words, numbers and tuples should be hashed as well.
Spread the word!
Brian Hawley
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