Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar
| From: | Alex Bowers | Date: | Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:40:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar | ||
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> I've tried implementing python style slice on both strings and arrays in
the past (I don't seem to have an existing branch with it in any more
> though it seems). The biggest problems I hit were regarding the syntax, the
> functionality itself worked.
If you've got a link to your messaging thread, I'd love to read it. Thanks
Colons caused problems with ternary operators in the lexer, and I had an
> issue with commas too, but I forget what it was. Of course these might have
> been resolvable, but I didn't put too much effort into it.
Could this not be mitigated by adding a new token like T_COLON to be used
to match this use case?