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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:09:39 +0100
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On 10/10/2024 21:31, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

> Thinks start to become complicated once references to complex objects
> are involved. Eg,
> 
> @{$$a[0]}
> 
> is the array referred to by the first item of the array $a refers to and
> 
> ${$$a[0]}[0]
> 
> which seriously starts to look like a trench fortification with
> barbed-wire obstacles is a way to refer to the first element of this
> array.

I thought you were defending the language. Now you seem to be agreeing 
with how bad this syntax is.