hoon: adds new atom ops #6961
hoon: adds new atom ops #6961
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| ~/ %rig | ||
| |= [=bite b=bloq] | ||
| ^- step | ||
| ?@ bite 0 |
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Forgot to ask: why are $bite with step size 1 not converted?
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This is a great question -- it's entirely because of +hew and the pattern I've used to compose calls to it in the directed-messaging packet decoder (see #6932). +hew takes a $bite as both a bloq specifier for the reads it will perform and an initial cursor position. It doesn't make sense to default the cursor to anywhere other than 0, but the makes it a non-standard (and possibly abusive) interpretation of $bite.
For +rig in general, it would be simpler to be $-([bite bloq] bite) and just return the bloq from its sample when the bite is an atom, punting on the whole question. But that's less applicable my use-cases in #6963 and packet decoding. I need to play around with it, and possibly split it into two entrypoints.
To be included in hoon %137, as required by #6932.