[m-dev.] Introduce !! rather than ^elem() for indexing

[Thomas Conway]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:11:30PM EST, Michael Day wrote:
> That's very clever, and will reduce my typing considerably :) Passing a
> list of lists of string now becomes [[string]] rather than
> list(list(string)), which is pleasantly concise. And rather like Haskell,
> I believe?

Yes.

FWIW, I also frequently also use

:- type (A -> B) == map(A, B).

Thomas
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