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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: generating permutations
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luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes:
<snip>
> [...] But an array
> is implemented with a hefty 'dope vector' or descriptor or display which
> allow simple slicing to still share the original data through a modified
> descriptor. The result will still be rectangular, but is no longer bound
> by the linear mapping of the generalized indexing formula. The descriptor
> will be augmented with extra index-transformation powers.

Yes, surely a slice (like yours at least) is just an array whose indexes
go through a table first?  And it seems possible (at first glance) that
you could implement this table as one of your unsliced array objects.
This might be slow for something or memory hungry for others (which it
why some languages have a more constrained notion of a slice) but often
the best plan is to implement something and see if indeed suits your
purpose.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.