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[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Nick Maclaren" <nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> "Hendrik van Rooyen" <mail at microcorp.co.za> writes:

> |> When I looked at the above, I went "tilt" -
> 
> Yes, you are confused :-)  Neither the agents nor strings take the
> other as 'arguments', but are effectively methods of the I/O object.
> Let's consider a modern example:  a text editor with hyperlink
> facilities.  Note that I am referring to the hyperlinks of the kind
> that can occur anywhere, and not those associated with a particular,
> usually highlighted, word.
> 
> Text is a sequence of letters/words/sentences/paragraphs/markup/etc.;
> let's assume words, as strings, for the purpose of argument.  Words
> can be inserted, deleted, changed etc.
> 
> Hyperlinks are agents and can be added at any point.  Their only
> relationship with the text is the position at which they occur (i.e.
> none or more may occur between any two consecutive words).
> 

Thanks that helps - I really had the queen cat by the balls...

- Hendrik