On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 9:16 AM Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote: > >> > "Perhaps more importantly, what improvement do you propose?" > > > > Apologies for top-posting, but what immediately comes to my mind upon > > encountering the creation of a self-referential (circular/infinite) > > object is proverbially 'going-down-a-level' and trying again. So I > > tried 1. 'decontainerizing' the object on the LHS, and then 2. using > > the ",=" postfix to add an additional element (or many). Nothing > > worked. > > I think the trouble with ideas like that is once you accept that > > @a ,= 'd'; > > Is necessarily a short-form of: > > @a = @a, 'd'; > > You can see the thing you need to decontainerize is that @a on > the RHS: > > @a = | @a, 'd'; > > But you can't get at it in the short form. > > (So you wouldn't normally try to use the short form with arrays.)
Hi Joe, what would you expect the code below to produce? %h<> ,= c => 3; @a[] ,= 'd'; Best, Bill.
