Yeah like I said at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14418 I even withdraw my sense that there must be a better way. Next time, think before hitting submit :)
It's perfectly understandable that you want a nice, sleek, shiny high-level thing that walks your dog and washes your dishes, but at some point you need the low-level stuff.
And because I'm sorta kinda writing an interpreter, not only am I thinking about low-level stuff, but I'm actually implementing it, so my posts and "great ideas" will probably be about low-level stuff for a while.
So, don't worry about it. You're up there in Arc-land thinking about high-level stuff, whereas I'm down here in low-level Python, thinking about low-level stuff. We both need to try to remember that better.
I'd still be interested in hearing if you come up with a better idea.
Oh! I know! We can write an Arc program that reads our minds, it would be the most elegant and concise language ever! :P
