FEAT: by operator

[hiiamboris]

Alias to as-pair, as in 2 by 4, w by h, cols by rows.
It's readable, concise and conveys 2D meaning, and hardly has a better use.
I can compare it to addition: we can use add and sometimes we prefer that, but most of the time stick with just +. Same here. I can find couple of dozens uses of by in Spaces vs only a couple of as-pair.

[greggirwin]

Where is spaces now (I was going to look at by in real use cases)? I still have a ref to the old repo it seems. I thought codeberg, but that one doesn't seem to have been touched in a while.

My gut says by makes sense in dialects, but not so much in general use. One of those cases where the goal of natural language style sounds tempting, but may not be a win overall. And when we implement point, as you note this is for 2D only, it hits a wall. It's a good prompt to think about wording for pair!, which today is described for use as coordinates, but has more dimensional possibilities.

[hiiamboris]

@greggirwin still there but in WIP mode But no search on codeberg, so you might wanna visit github mirror anyway or search locally after pulling.

If this hits a wall with point!, as-pair does that too :)

but has more dimensional possibilities.

Yes, interesting idea.

>> 2 by 4 by 6
== (2, 4, 6)

[greggirwin]

Well, we would call it as-point. :^)