Re: Bracket heresies. What about subscripting?

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Subject: Re: Bracket heresies. What about subscripting?
From: Chris Bitmead <chris@tech.com.au>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:23:59 +1000
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> (vector-ref v n) is a very clumsy way of getting element n in a 
> vector v; I am still enough of C/Pascal/Basic person at heart 
> to have to stop myself from saying v[n].

If you were writing nice functional code I don't think you'd be using
vectors as a data structure very much. Better make that two icy cold
showers and a full weekend of SICP :-).

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