Re: [PATCH] Index of element after width of characters

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:46:00 +0100
Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can resign from the "," and stay with "<" and ">" if Bart agrees.
> The comma would be more complicated than the rest, having 3 possible
> values: index, -1, empty string. Having only "<" and ">" it's easy to
> detect that the limit doesn't divide any char in half:

Mikael's right, actually --- this is an indexing problem and more
consistently done with subscripts.  It should actually be simpler than
the existing code for space-delimited words in scalars.

pws