In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) wrote:

>    sub wn($n) { $n ?? wn($n-1)+1 :: $w }
>    $w2 = 0... + wn«0...;
>    assert($w2 == $w*2);
>Just think of the possibilities!  :-)

Hm.  Needs more Unicode.  =)

>Seriously though, putting 1st, 2nd, nth, etc. in the language is somehow
>very appealing.  It makes my heartburn about m:1st// settle down quite a
>bit, too.

It is kind of comfortable.  Which is why I think I'd like to keep the 
redundant nth (if we have "first" and "last"), aka 'th (where nth($i) 
and $i'th are just pre- and postfixed versions of each other).

When you're referring to an element in the middle of a list,
     $four'th
just feels cleaner than "first+$four" or something.

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