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8.19 Extended indexing operators

• 8.19.1 Multi-index notation

(Introduced in 4.06)

This extension provides syntactic sugar for getting and setting elements for user-defined indexed types. For instance, we can define python-like dictionaries with

   module Dict = struct include Hashtbl let ( .%{} ) tabl index = find tabl index let ( .%{}<- ) tabl index value = add tabl index value end let dict = let dict = Dict.create 10 in let () = dict.Dict.%{"one"} <- 1; let open Dict in dict.%{"two"} <- 2 in dict 

   dict.Dict.%{"one"};; - : int = 1   let open Dict in dict.%{"two"};; - : int = 2 

8.19.1 Multi-index notation

Multi-index are also supported through a second variant of indexing operators

   let (.%[;..]) = Bigarray.Genarray.get let (.%{;..}) = Bigarray.Genarray.get let (.%(;..)) = Bigarray.Genarray.get 

which is called when an index literals contain a semicolon separated list of expressions with two and more elements:

   let sum x y = x.%[1;2;3] + y.%[1;2] (* is equivalent to *) let sum x y = (.%[;..]) x [|1;2;3|] + (.%[;..]) y [|1;2|] 

In particular this multi-index notation makes it possible to uniformly handle indexing Genarray and other implementations of multidimensional arrays.

   module A = Bigarray.Genarray let (.%{;..}) = A.get let (.%{;..}<- ) = A.set let (.%{ }) a k = A.get a [|k|] let (.%{ }<-) a k x = A.set a [|k|] x let syntax_compare vec mat t3 t4 = vec.%{0} = A.get vec [|0|] && mat.%{0;0} = A.get mat [|0;0|] && t3.%{0;0;0} = A.get t3 [|0;0;0|] && t4.%{0;0;0;0} = t4.{0,0,0,0} 

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