DeRobertis wrote:
>I honestly don't see why we should not allow:
>
> put item 1 delimited by comma to line 15 of container1 into container2
This sounds cool... at the first moment. But have you any reasonable
examples, where you would need such a thing? Is it not easier to
understand if you say:
put item 1 to -1 of line 1 to 15 of ...
>Is there really any reason to force the user to jump through hurdles to
>achieve the same effect? Why may we not intermix multiple types? It does
>open some possibilities:
>
> put item 5 to (through?) end of line of container1 into container2
put item 5 to -1 of line 1 of ...
> put char 3 to end of word of container1 into container2
put char 3 to -1 of word 1 of ...
I think this would reduce readability more than it would add to it.
To me it seems like your expressions lead to a unnecessarily complex
logic.
Regards!
R�diger
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