Re: Wish list

• Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:02:03 PDT
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  jesse montrose <jesse@spine.com>
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At 09:31 AM 8/28/95 PDT, Kipp the Kidd wrote:
>Has anyone added this to the wish list yet? {a,b,c}[d]=e
>
>whichone=args[1];
>stuff=args[2];
>{this.name,this.description,this.aliases}[whichone]=stuff;
>
>It would come in handy for me at least...

I have only browsed the parsing code, but I think the trouble is that a
temporary list is formed by the {}..

It looks handy at first blush, but there are a lot of less handy
implications.. This'd break a lot of existing code that expects to have its
way with temporary lists :)
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