TMC On the Verge of Insanity
Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 3240 Location: Matakana
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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That email, which was the first real documentation on slices, can be found cleaned up and linkified at 'Plotslices Tutorial'
James Paige wrote: | Of course, eventyally we will have support for real arrays, and we might want to add array index slicing, in which case I will have shot myself in the foot.
Maybe "thingies" would have been the better choice ;) |
I guess it wouldn't help things if I added and started talking about both array slicing and array splicing :P
We could try and avoid 'array slices', and talk about 'sliced arrays' instead, or use 'subarray' which probably a more formal term. _________________ "It is so great it is insanely great." |
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