Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:

(Note: I tend to prefer sendign "3 4" to the first outlet, as it's technically easier, but I would like your opinions, too.)

Note 2: Logically I tend to prefer it the other way around, as it makes it easier for example to allow negative rotations of lists.

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Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:

I want to include an abstraction into [list]-abs which acts as a wrapper around [list split] but also accepts negative indices to split off a list from the back. That is, a "list 0 1 2 3 4" splitted at index "-2" would give two lists, "0 1 2" and "3 4".

Negative indices have a precedent in both Ruby and Python. Also, many GridFlow objects support such a thing.

To recapitulate: Currently the standard [list split 2] would send "0 1" to the first outlet and "2 3 4" to the second. Should a fictional [list split -2] send "3 4" to the first or to the second outlet?

There is no precedent of something sufficiently like [list split] in Ruby, maybe Array#slice! would be the closest, which has in input a list and a cut-point just like yours, but also an optional length, defaulting to 1. Then it returns the specified portion of the list, and deletes that very same portion from the original list. For example:

a = [0 1 2 3 4] p a.slice!(2,2) # shows [2,3] p a # shows [0,1,4]

I don't know which of those two outputs should be the main one, but it should mirror a subsequent "unsplit" or "unslice" so that e.g.:

[list slice 2 2] | | [list unslice 2 2]

is a no-op (rebuilds exactly the same list), if the list is long enough and if the starting position is nonnegative.

(Note: I tend to prefer sendign "3 4" to the first outlet, as it's technically easier,

I don't know. What's technically easier about it?

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