In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> "Nick Maclaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> > Not at all. I didn't say that they came in pairs. Consider: |> > |> > [str1, str2, agent1, str3, agent2, agent3, agent4, str4, ...] |> > |> > See Algol 68 for an example of this. |> |> When I looked at the above, I went "tilt" -
Yes, you are confused :-) Neither the agents nor strings take the other as 'arguments', but are effectively methods of the I/O object. Let's consider a modern example: a text editor with hyperlink facilities. Note that I am referring to the hyperlinks of the kind that can occur anywhere, and not those associated with a particular, usually highlighted, word. Text is a sequence of letters/words/sentences/paragraphs/markup/etc.; let's assume words, as strings, for the purpose of argument. Words can be inserted, deleted, changed etc. Hyperlinks are agents and can be added at any point. Their only relationship with the text is the position at which they occur (i.e. none or more may occur between any two consecutive words). Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
