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Indeed. Also, this notation was lifted straight from Fortran 90 (which itself got it from Matlab, Algol, and the primitive slicing that was possible in older FO
by kergonath 5y ago
Indeed. Also, this notation was lifted straight from Fortran 90 (which itself got it from Matlab, Algol, and the primitive slicing that was possible in older FORTRANs). The idea that a concise notation is helpful for the concept of “put a thing in all the buckets of an array” really is quite old. It does make a lot of sense.