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Re: Would you consider this a bug? [message #13068 is a reply to message #12982]

Thu, 01 October 1998 00:00

Kevin Ivory
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David Kastrup wrote:
> a=[3,4,5]
> a[[2,1,0]] = a
>
> a will be set to [3,4,3]
>
> Would you think this a bug?

I think this is extremely dangerous programming: you might get
undefined or unpredictable results with almost any programming language
in this type of case. The clean way of doing what you want is to
index the right side of the expression:
a = a[[2,1,0]]

I don't think this is a bug.

Kevin
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		Would you consider this a bug? By: David Kastrup on Wed, 30 September 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: David Kastrup on Mon, 05 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: muswick on Sat, 03 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 02 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: David Kastrup on Thu, 01 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: korpela on Thu, 01 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: Kevin Ivory on Thu, 01 October 1998 00:00
		Re: Would you consider this a bug? By: David Kastrup on Thu, 01 October 1998 00:00
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