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Re: origin of the index syntax
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Francesco Potorti` |
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Re: origin of the index syntax |
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Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:19:44 +0200 |
>> I meant to ask this: If I want to take a slice of a multidimensional
>> array, I can express it as [1:10, 3, 0.1, [3 6], :]. Is there a common
>> name for this kind of syntax?
>
>I think that has its origins in fortran (I'm positive that it's part of
>fortran 90), so you could say it's fortran style, but that doesn't sound
>like quite what you're looking for.
In fact, this is exactly what I am looking for!
But do you really mean that this is part of Fortran 90? I mean, that an
index can be either number, or an interval, or even a literal array
written in the form [3 6]?
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