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# Re: Wish list

- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:02:03 PDT
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    At 09:31 AM 8/28/95 PDT, Kipp the Kidd wrote:
    >Has anyone added this to the wish list yet? {a,b,c}[d]=e
    >
    >whichone=args[1];
    >stuff=args[2];
    >{this.name,this.description,this.aliases}[whichone]=stuff;
    >
    >It would come in handy for me at least...

    I have only browsed the parsing code, but I think the trouble is that a
    temporary list is formed by the {}..

    It looks handy at first blush, but there are a lot of less handy
    implications.. This'd break a lot of existing code that expects to have its
    way with temporary lists :)
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