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psychoslave • today at 7:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Futhark supports a fairly conventional Python-like notation for array slices, namely a[i:j]. This does not have such a simple correspondence with function application syntax.

I don't get it. How is that not trivial with something like

    array·slice(from: initial, to: juncture)
Which is not much different from a·/(i,j) when one want to play the monograph game instead. It can be further reduced to a/(i,j) taking from granted that "/" is given special treatment so it can be employed as part of identifiers.

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Athas • today at 7:34 AM

The post explains that 'a[i]' can easily enough be written as 'a i'. Your suggestions do not resemble the current function application syntax in the language discussed in the post. The question is not whether a terse slice syntax can exist (clearly it can), but whether a syntactic similarity between indexing and application can also be extended to a syntactic similarity between slicing and application.